Re: Drag and drop patch for X, please review.

[David Kastrup]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

> The enclosed patch adds drag and drop support (well, actually only
> drop) in X to Emacs.  The protocols supported are XDND (the most
> used nowdays, by Mozilla, OpenOffice, Gnome, KDE etc.) and the old
> KDE 1.x protocol.  You can currently drop file names and text.
> Files will be opened and text inserted (at mouse position).  Http
> urls and such are just ignored, probably there is something more
> intelligent one could do, suggestions?

You could call browse-url on them.  My browse-url handles the mailto:
protocol within Emacs.

One could also call the handlers of browse-url for all treated URL
types, and for the rest insert <URL:http://the.link.address> into the
buffer.

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