Re: Drag and drop patch for X, please review.

[Jan D.]

> > The enclosed patch adds drag and drop support (well, actually only
> > drop) in X to Emacs.  The protocols supported are XDND (the most
> > used nowdays, by Mozilla, OpenOffice, Gnome, KDE etc.) and the old
> > KDE 1.x protocol.  You can currently drop file names and text.
> > Files will be opened and text inserted (at mouse position).  Http
> > urls and such are just ignored, probably there is something more
> > intelligent one could do, suggestions?
>
> You could call browse-url on them.  My browse-url handles the mailto:
> protocol within Emacs.

I will do that, it is probably the best thing to do.

> One could also call the handlers of browse-url for all treated URL
> types, and for the rest insert <URL:http://the.link.address> into the
> buffer.

It would be nice if I could give it to browse-url first and then catch
the error if there is no handler, but that doesn't seem to work since
by default it seems that browse-url justs hands off the url to a
browser (if I am reading it correctly).

        Jan D.