GNU bug report logs - #43470
27.1; Drag and Drop not working properly in 27.1 on OSX

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Paul Magwene, Ph.D." <paul.magwene <at> duke.edu>

Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.1

Done: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: "Paul Magwene, Ph.D." <paul.magwene <at> duke.edu>, 43470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "43470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <43470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#43470: 27.1; Drag and Drop not working properly in 27.1 on OSX
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 13:39:03 +0200

Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> writes:
>
> The big decision is what should Emacs do by default? My opinion is
> that when receiving a URL we should insert the link as text rather
> than try to open it: Emacs isn't a web browser. Perhaps that's wrong,
> I'm not sure what Emacs does on other platforms.

I've tested on GNU/Linux (Emacs 27.1 and Emacs 24) and the behavior is
that dragging an dropping a URL from Firefox opens the web page source,
just like Emacs 26 on macOS. The GNU/Linux version does not seem to
support overriding the destination action with Ctrl, Shift, etc.
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