When I try to drag and drop a file into XEmacs it will not open the file. I am not using X, just plain Windows. This behaviour of XEmacs is specific to the distribution that comes with cygwin. I have seen a similar bugreport "Drag and Drop Dead on cygwin on win XP" but no solution so far. I analysed the problem and here is what I found:
Drag and Drop works with the cygwin command line window. If I drop the file into the command line window I get say > C:\temp\dasp\sim\delayline.vhd I try to drag the same file onto XEmacs, it will show the cursor indicating it accepts drops. However, once the file is dropped, it will not open. I open the same file manually (File|Open), modify and save the file to disk. The message in the info window says: Wrote /cygdrive/c/temp/dasp/sim/delayline.vhd The problem appears to be in the drag and drop hook used by XEmacs. When dropping a file to XEmacs it gets the ":" notation of the path. Since it is using the cygwin environment, however, it needs the "/cygdrive/c" notation. Thus, the open operation fails silently and nothing happens. Since drag and drop of files is a very useful feature I would very much appreciate if this behaviour of the cygwin distribution would be fixed in the future. Thanks and kind regards, Frank. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
