Text drag'n'drop on editor selections

[StevenRCE0]

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• [X] Completed

Describe the feature

Though it seems "un-geeky" to use mouse to rearrange blocks of code, it would be nice to have!

If applicable, add mockups / screenshots to help present your vision of the feature

[chadananda]

This was pointed out over a year ago. How do basic editor UI features get left out?

This is why VS-Code wins, their team first implemented feature-complete editing UI.

[injust]

Dragging text from another application into a Zed editor should also work.

[fullyDeepak]

Any update on this ?

[lcdss]

I miss this feature from vscode, but it seems it's close to be released. Thanks to the contributors.

[meliborn]

Was it released? Should I enable something?

[smitbarmase]

It's enabled by default. Just hold on to selection for more than 300ms, and drag.

[injust]

Dragging text from another application into a Zed editor should also work.

@smitbarmase Would you prefer to open a new discussion for this?

[smitbarmase]

Created one here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/34930

[digitalextremist]

Seems like this functionality disappeared? 0.196.5 has the setting now, but the functionality is gone.

[WantenMN]

It should also support dragging from one pane to another pane.

[digitalextremist]

Has anyone noticed this functionality gone, even with this setting in place?

  "drag_and_drop_selection": { "enabled": true, "delay": 300 }

Currently on 0.199.9 and about to update

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Issue persists at 0.200.5 [ estimated to have seen this for >20 patch revisions and ~2 minor versions ]

[eandersons]

@digitalextremist, did you try "delay": 0? From what I have observed, drag and drop with delay can be quite tricky.

[digitalextremist]

Yes, I did try delay: 0 @eandersons; unfortunately, no difference!

[eandersons]

@digitalextremist, that is unfortonate to hear.

What is the operating system on the computer you are experiencing drag and drop not working?

Do you have a chance to check if the issue can be observed on other machines?

Either way I think that you should create a new issue regarding the problems you are experiencing if that has not been already done, as this one is specifically about adding drag and drop functionality, which has been done.

[digitalextremist]

Did ticket this, here, @eandersons: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/36968

@smitbarmase seems to think it might be isolated to Linux Mint

Have not been able to check with a different machine, but will try to also!