Re: Emacs Explorer?

[Jan D.]

> 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.

Agreed.

> > 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.

The way you start the drag (i.e. mouse-1, shift-mouse-1, mouse-2 e.t.c.)
usually does not matter at all, at least in X.  I would be surprised
if other systems had this limitation.

        Jan D.