> > I've noticed under Windows I can drag and drop local files into Emacs which is > > great, but when dragging the "URL" from a browser (Firefox/IE/Chrome), Emacs > > does not seem to register itself as a valid drop target for this drag type. > > > > I am using the standard Windows built 24.4.1 (i686-pc-mingw32). > > > > Is this a known issue? > > Yes. Emacs on Windows supports dragging and dropping only of file > names, because (AFAIK) that is the only kind of entity for which a > d-n-d interface exists for C programs. Dragging and dropping other > kinds of entities, including URLs, requires C++. > > If someone knows how to do that from a C program, please speak up.
Definitely not my area of expertise.. but is there anything useful in here? http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32cdnd/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32cdnd/files/DragAndDrop_1_0.zip/download is a link to the C code for some dnd code. Cheers, David