Re: Emacs Explorer?

[Jason Rumney]

Jan D. wrote:

> > To tell the truth, I hate the D&D-by-dragging-selected-text 
> > behavior of other apps (in particular, mozilla), because it's damn 
> > touchy -- often I'll try to click to make the selected region 
> > collapse, but accidentally drag a _little bit_, which ends up 
> > invoking the D&D behavior...
>
> I get bitten by this sometimes also.  It is important that the amount
>  of drag is customizable.  Usually it is not.

I'd say its more important that this type of D&D can be turned off.
Either people are used to doing things this way, with all its faults,
or they are not, and don't want this feature.

> This is probably the reason why Motif/CDE uses mouse-2 to drag.  No 
> risk of starting a drag when an ordinary click with mouse-1 was 
> intended.

We could adopt that convention, but then it would only work within
Emacs, at least on Windows and I presume GTK, Qt and Mac, since the
system idea of dragging would be different than Emacs idea.