Juergen Fenn wrote: >>> I select some text. >>> 2. This piece of text is marked in yellow as selected. >>> 3. I place the cursor above the selected text and press the left mouse >>> button. >>> 4. I try to drag this text to a different part of the buffer. >>> 5. More text I hover over when dragging is selected in yellow. There >>> is no dragging. There is not dropping either when I release the >>> left mouse button. >>> > Well, that's what we mean by 'drag and drop', don't we? >
No. The drag and drop that Emacs supports is dropping files/folders from other programs such as Explorer on the Emacs frame (and on X, snippets of text, but the way Windows supports that is overly complex so noone has implemented it yet). I have seen a lisp package that supports drag and drop within Emacs such as you describe. I think it was called drag-and-drop.el
