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

From: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo <at> imayhem.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 3468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3468: drag and drop text
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:45:52 +0200

On 29/09/2024 13:36, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> What did you see on Windows 11?  Do we always receive "wide" file
> names?  

Yes, always wide on Windows 11 on my tests.

> Did you try dragging file names whose characters are not supported by 
> the current ANSI codepage, and if so, did it work?

I just tried and it works fine.

>> It runs indeed on the "shell thread". I'll move all the processing to
>> the message handler.
> 
> Thanks.  By "message handler" you mean w32_read_socket, yes?

Yes.
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