[comp.emacs] xview/openwin drag&drop for GNU emacs

clindh@sunrise.abalon.se (Christer Lindh) (11/29/90)

I'm running GNU Emacs 18.55 on a Sun 3/60 with OpenWindows 2.0.

Has anyone hacked GNU Emacs (x11term.c?)  to support the drag-and-drop
feature in OpenWindows?  Would it be possible?  It'd be neat to drag a
file from the filemanager to emacs and have it open that file in a new
buffer.

Also, is it possible to set/change the icon, icon-name and title from
whitin emacs?
--
        clindh@abalon.se              ::     o/    
   Abalon AB, Stockholm, Sweden       ::    /@     fight gravity.
                                      ::    <|\        climb.
     *All disclaimers apply*          ::     |     

mnl@idtsun1.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de (Michael@mitvma.mit.edu N. Lipp) (12/04/90)

>>>>> On Sat, 1 Dec 90 16:33:11 GMT, unix-emacs-request@VM.TCS.TULANE.EDU said:

clindh> Has anyone hacked GNU Emacs (x11term.c?)  to support the
clindh> drag-and-drop feature in OpenWindows?

I did not. However initializing server-mode in your .emacs and configuring
the file-manager to use emacsclient as text-editor allows you to double-click
on files and they will be opened in your emacs. I even prefer double-clicking;
dragging costs too much time.

    Michael Lipp

-----------------,------------------------------,------------------------------
Michael N. Lipp  !  Institut fuer Datentechnik  !  XDATMNLX@DDATHD21.BITNET
                 !  Merckstr. 25                !  (local: mnl@idtsun1)
                 !  D-6100 Darmstadt (Germany)  `------------------------------
                 !  Phone: 49-6151-163776          Fax: 49-6151-164976
-----------------'------------------------------'------------------------------