bug#30929: 26.0.91; Text drag and drop does not work

[Nick Helm]

On Sat, 2019-01-05 at 10:27 +0000, Alan Third wrote:
> Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 08:44:42 +1200, Alan Third wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:16:32AM +1200, Nick Helm wrote:
> > > > My main problem is the bewildering number of different data
> > > > types that
> > > > have be to handled, in particular casting every possibility
> > > > from 
> > > > ObjC -> C -> Lisp and interpreting them at the end.
> > > 
> > > When we pass the data to lisp we *always* want it in plain
> > > text, so if it’s a file then the filepath, a URL is plaintext
> > > anyway,
> > > as is text.
> > > 
> > > Anything else we can ignore or reject.
> > 
> > OK, this is helpful. I was thinking we'd need to handle all the
> > uniform
> > type identifiers. For example, yes a NSURLPboardType is always text
> > but
> > it might conform to public.text, public.plain-text,
> > public.utf8-plain-text, public.url, public.file-url, etc. But I
> > guess
> > Emacs couldn't care less about all that. The current code simply
> > converts to a UTF8 string and sends it on, so I'll do that too.
> 
> Hi Nick, did you make any progress on the drag and drop stuff?

Hi Alan. Sorry, no I never managed to get it working they way I wanted.