Hello.


22 feb 2012 kl. 09:08 skrev Glenn Morris <rgm@xxxxxxx>:

> Jan DjÃrv wrote:
>
>> The big problem is that dragging a file to Emacs on NS inserts the
>> contents of that file to the current buffer instead of opening it as
>> people normally expect, and indeed is what all other Emacs versions
>> does. It is like that in Emacs 23 also, so this is not a regression.
>> But as we are in a feature freeze this will have to wait, even if the
>> behaviour is stupid. If Emacs would open dragged files in a new
>> buffer, images would be shown as images.
>
> Is it just a question of doing what it says in the manual, or is more
> needed?
>

No, that and changing the manual.
The bindning to change is in ns-win.el


> The default behavior when a user drags files from another application
> into an Emacs frame is to insert the contents of all the dragged files
> into the current buffer. To remap the `ns-drag-file' event to open the
> dragged files in the current frame use the following line:
>
> (define-key global-map [ns-drag-file] 'ns-find-file)
>
> Maybe that change is sensible and safe enough for 24.1.
> (I can't even test it so I wouldn't know.)

If you want I can do it. I have been running with that change in my local copy
for about a year now.

Jan D.