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Re: Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:24:36 +0300 |
> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:57:57 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Emacs on MS-Windows supports only drag-and-drop FROM other
> > applications TO Emacs.
>
> Thanks for your response. Is there any variable to set to make this
> work?
>
> I pasted this snippet into Word,
>
> ** New user option 'mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program'.
> If non-nil, this option allows dragging text in the region from Emacs to
> another program.
>
> marked it, and tried to d-n-d it into *scratch* buffer and see a `nay'
> symbol.
We only support dragging file names into Emacs (which should cause
Emacs to visit that file). Sorry I didn't mention that before.