Re: URL drag and drop support
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:26:07 +1000 > From: David Sitsky <[email protected]> > > I've noticed under Windows I can drag and drop local files into Emacs which is > great, but when dragging the "URL" from a browser (Firefox/IE/Chrome), Emacs > does not seem to register itself as a valid drop target for this drag type. > > I am using the standard Windows built 24.4.1 (i686-pc-mingw32). > > Is this a known issue? Yes. Emacs on Windows supports dragging and dropping only of file names, because (AFAIK) that is the only kind of entity for which a d-n-d interface exists for C programs. Dragging and dropping other kinds of entities, including URLs, requires C++. If someone knows how to do that from a C program, please speak up.