GNU bug report logs - #3468
Support drag and drop of text on MS Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Erdkern Erdkern" <Erdkern2000 <at> gmx.de>

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:00:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: help

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 3468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Erdkern Erdkern" <Erdkern2000 <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 3468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3468: drag and drop text
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:29:54 +0200

"Erdkern Erdkern" <Erdkern2000 <at> gmx.de> writes:

> I use windows as operating system. I want to drag text from text
> editor or browser (say Wordpad or Firefox) and drop it in emacs, but
> this is not possible, drop is not allowed. On the other side, if I
> drag an unknown filetype (say, an *.rdp-File) into emacs, it is
> dropped as text.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately didn't get any
response at the time.)

I tried this in Emacs 27, but on GNU/Linux, and it worked fine for me
there.  Are you still seeing this problem?

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