Re: [AUCTeX] Drag and drop support

[Michal Sojka]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Damien Cassou wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Michal Sojka <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I worked on a LaTeX document that was full of various figures. The
> > figures had to be selected from approximately 300 files sored in a
> > fileststem. I selected the figure to insert in a filemanager, but it was
> > too tedious to copy the name of the figure and insert
> > \includegraphics{<filename>} by hand. So I quickly hacked the following
> > piece of elisp to accomplish this automatically when a file is
> > drag-and-dropped to Emacs window. I think, that it would be useful if
> > something like this becomes a part of Auctex. What do you think?
> 
> it might have been simpler to use dired to browse your files and then
> use an emacs macro, isn't it?

I do not think so. In the first place, you have to create the macro. It
takes some time and not so skilled users may not be able to do this. Out
of the box support for d'n'd would work for everybody.

Additionally, my approx also works when you drag images from web
browser. Acutally, in my case, the figures were graphs from some
experiments and I had several .html pages (with some nice navigation
between experiments) which contain the information about the experiment
and the graph. In the browser, I naviaged to the right experiment and
then drag the image to Emacs. You can look at
http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/can/benchmark/2/ and compare it with dired
navigation.

-Michal