Folks,

GNU Emacs alllows draggin mouse to create selection.

I was wondering why is isn't there a drag and drop editing support also.

Could something like the following be done ?

(defun drag-cut-copy-paste (start-event)

"Drag and drop editing."

  (interactive "e")
  (if mark-active

    (progn

; track mouse and inert cut/copied text at the mouse up location

        (progn
          (mouse-drag-region start-event)
      )
    )
  )

(global-set-key [(down-mouse-1)] drag-cut-copy-paste)