Drag and drop from dired window to telegram/whatsapp/etc
reddit / emacs

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MLGPachino · 2022-03-14 17:19

I have been switching to dired as a file manager and I wanted to send
a file to someone. I see drag and drop only works for dropping a file
onto emacs, and have not found a way to drop from dired to other
windows. Is there a way to do this?

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ieure · 2022-03-14 17:39

I have no solution, but I want a solution for this as well.

Either DnD or copy from dired / paste into X client would be huge.

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00-11 · 2022-03-14 18:13

Can't you use `!` (`dired-do-shell-command`) to send the file contents
to a shell program of your choice? E.g. `! cat`.

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nikhilc1527 · 2022-03-14 19:24

I use the program [dragon](https://github.com/mwh/dragon) to solve
such a problem.

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MLGPachino · 2022-03-14 22:19

Perhaps pipe the file into the clipboard with that shortcut. I already
know there are programs to do this.