Re: Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:57:57 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Emacs on MS-Windows supports only drag-and-drop FROM other
> > applications TO Emacs.
> 
> Thanks for your response.  Is there any variable to set to make this
> work?
> 
> I pasted this snippet into Word,
> 
>   ** New user option 'mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program'.
>   If non-nil, this option allows dragging text in the region from Emacs to 
> another program.
> 
> marked it, and tried to d-n-d it into *scratch* buffer and see a `nay'
> symbol.

We only support dragging file names into Emacs (which should cause
Emacs to visit that file).  Sorry I didn't mention that before.