Shell style drag & drop
ConEmu-Maximus5 supports ‘drag & drop’ of files and folders between ConEmu and other applications supporting this feature.
Far Manager
If you use Far Manager you will be able to
drag files and folders from Far’s panels outside and drop them
into panels. Modificators Ctrl
, Shift
and Alt
forces
‘Copy’, ‘Move’ and ‘Link’ actions respectively.
The plugin is required
The ConEmu plugin must be loaded into Far Manager! So the “ConEmu” item may be visible in the Far’s F11
plugins menu.The plugin is loaded by default if you run it via predefined Task “{Far}”.
Other shells
When you use other shells (‘cmd’, ‘bash’, ‘powershell’ …) ConEmu will support only ‘drop’. So, when you drop files or folders, they paths will be just pasted into console as simple text.
Some hints
Due to some reason (a bugs or bitness incompatibility) some applications may fail to accept dropped files.
Last seen problem was related to PngOptimizer.
This application uses DragQueryFileW
function
which utilizes CF_HDROP data format.
It’s unclear why, but when bitnesses of applications (ConEmu and PngOptimizer)
do not match, the function DragQueryFileW
fails
to retrieve the count of dragged files.