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Re: master 4f56ca6376: Add new user option `mouse-drag-mode-line-buffer'
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: master 4f56ca6376: Add new user option `mouse-drag-mode-line-buffer' |
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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 16:32:32 +0300 |
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 20:20:20 +0800
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> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
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> > Is this supposed to work on MS-Windows? We do support there dragging
> > file names and dropping them onto an Emacs frame. However, I couldn't
> > make this work, even when dragging from one Emacs session to another.
> > I now see that we display a message saying dragging files is not
> > supported, but why is that?
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> Unfortunately, it doesn't work on platforms where the necessary
> drag-and-drop APIs aren't available. Right now, they are only available
> on X, Haiku and Nextstep.
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> Not mentioning that in the doc string was an oversight, but when I
> looked into implementing them on MS Windows, I found that apparently the
> necessary "IDropSource" API cannot be used from C.
OK, so please update NEWS and the doc string to that effect, and
thanks.