Re: [address@hidden: drag-n-drop can't be customized by the target buffer]

[Jason Rumney]

Jan D. wrote:

> It is not that simple, since drag and drop may involve text, pictures, 
> URLs and not just only files.  But if you just want files that exist, 
> the current CVS version of Emacs allows you to do this when using X 
> (i.e. not Windows or Mac OS X):
>
> (set (make-local-variable 'x-dnd-protocol-alist)
>      '(("^file:" . my-dnd-fun)))
>
> (defun my-dnd-fun (url action)
>   (let ((file (x-dnd-get-local-file-name url t)))
>     (vm-mime-attach-file file (or (vm-mime-default-type-from-filename 
> file)
>                   "application/octet-stream"))))
This works on Windows too, since the DND implementation has been changed 
to call x-dnd-handle-one-url for consistency.