Drag files from dired to other applications?

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!

Emacs 29.0.50 now has [dired-mouse-drag-files](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?id=cfedc2872e7ee56e4da6e5e557786ab66ddbbf23#n1445). **EDIT:** It's only supported on X Windows, though.

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

emacs delivers! thanks a lot!

that's very useful, thanks!

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

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.

AFAIK, it's only supported on X Windows. I've also edited my original comment.

The docstring says, This feature is supported only on X Windows and Haiku.

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

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))