Re: dired-mouse-drag-files

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This feature is not universally available, but is doc string doesn't
> say so (the manual does).
>
> Moreover, setting the variable non-nil unconditionally shows a tooltip
> on file names in Dired buffers saying that the user can drag the file
> to another program, but that is only so on X; on other platforms it's
> a misleading tooltip.
>
> As an aside, changing the value of the variable doesn't affect the
> Dired buffers that already exist, only those created afterwards, which
> I think is not the best UX.
>
> Can you please fix these issues?

I will work on them ASAP, tho the idea is to have it universally
available by the time Emacs 29 is released.  (If nobody volunteers in a
week, I will try to find the time to implement it on NS.)

Thanks.