On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 4:05 AM, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:

> > I wonder why it doesn't work to drop the text onto other applications.
>
> Probably because there's no standard protocol to drag and drop anything
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> but files between different applications.

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Maybe not for every window system but on MacOS there is and many
applications accept dragged text directly:
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https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/drag_and_drop/making_a_view_into_a_drag_source
​ - source info​

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27420016/osx-drag-and-drop-text-not-file-to-app-dock-icon

​- destination info​

So this could be an addition to the macOS-specific drag-n-drop support.

Bob