Re: Drag-and-drop FROM Emacs to another editable application window under MacOS

[Robert Weiner]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 4:05 AM, martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:

> I wonder why it doesn't work to drop the text onto other applications.

Probably because there's no standard protocol to drag and drop anything

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but files between different applications.

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Maybe not for every window system but on MacOS there is and many applications accept dragged text directly:

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https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/drag_and_drop/making_a_view_into_a_drag_source

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27420016/osx-drag-and-drop-text-not-file-to-app-dock-icon 

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So this could be an addition to the macOS-specific drag-n-drop support.

Bob