Re: Patch for remote files in dnd.el

[Jason Rumney]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Any objections to installing this now?
>
> I don't want to add features that work only on proprietary systems.
> Our goal is to replace those systems, not to enhance them.
> This is a fine feature, but it needs to work on GNU/Linux before
> we support it.
>   
It is not a new feature. X desktops tend to use file: urls only for 
local files, and other protocols are already handled by dnd.el, so 
remote drag and drop is already available on free systems as far as I 
can tell. It was also available on Windows up until 21.4, since Windows 
used its own dnd code that did not try to differentiate local from 
remote files.