Drag files from dired to other applications?
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TheGramm · 2022-05-15 13:46

I stopped using file managers a while ago.

Complex file operations are done via a shell, the rest in dired.

They only reason I keep a file manager around is to be able to drag n
drop subtitles to mpv, because it's the fastest way.

Do you know of any way to enable drag n drop from dired? Preferably
under Xorg.

To clarify: I want to drag files from dired to other applications and
have it work like it normally would in Dolphin or Thunar

Thanks!

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organic-bookworm · 2022-05-15 14:03

Emacs 29.0.50 now has [dired-mouse-drag-files](https://git.savannah.gn
u.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?id=cfedc2872e7ee56e4da6e5e557786ab6
6ddbbf23#n1445).

**EDIT:** It's only supported on X Windows, though.

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_viz_ · 2022-05-15 14:05

But if you don't/can't compile master, then you may look into
dragon(1) https://github.com/mwh/dragon.

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TheGramm · 2022-05-15 14:49

emacs delivers! thanks a lot!

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TheGramm · 2022-05-15 14:50

that's very useful, thanks!

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vfclists · 2022-05-15 20:42

That program is in C. How does it integrate with Emacs?

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harizvi · 2022-05-16 06:24

This would be a pretty useful capability. Is it supposed to work
across all platforms?

I've a pretty recent Emacs from /u/jimehgeek builds installed via
brew. It has the said variable, dired-mouse-drag-files, but a drag
doesn't work for me.

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organic-bookworm · 2022-05-16 07:18

AFAIK, it's only supported on X Windows.

I've also edited my original comment.

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_viz_ · 2022-05-16 10:45

The docstring says,

    This feature is supported only on X Windows and Haiku.

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harizvi · 2022-05-16 16:08

Ah, it's right there. I should rtfm a bit :-)

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_viz_ · 2022-05-17 13:25

I use this command (replace xdragon with dragon),

    (defun vz/dired-popup-xdragon (&optional arg)
      "Open xdragon with the marked files or the file at point.
    With optional prefix argument ARG, drag all the files at once."
      (interactive "P")
      ;; xdragon rename is a nix thing, pretty sure.
      (make-process
       :name "xdragon"
       :command (append '("xdragon")
                        (when arg '("-a"))
                        (dired-get-marked-files))
       :noquery t))