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Re: Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:49:07 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Emacs 29 has a new option `mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program'
> which allows dragging text in the region from Emacs to another program
> if non-nil.  Is this supposed to work on Windows as well?  NEWS says
> nothing about this being available only on certain platforms.  I can't
> grab the text in region with the mouse pointer.  Am I missing something?

It isn't yet implemented on MS Windows (though I hope it will
eventually.)

Such an implementation will require implementing the `drag-source' value
of `track-mouse', and the function `x-begin-drag'.  Its documentation
should be enough to get started.


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