One of my students opened up #Emacs today, opened up a GUI file manager, found a file, grabbed the icon, dragged it onto Emacs, and dropped it. And it WORKED. I'm not sure which part distressed me more.
@chrishuck In my experience the 21st century has a fair way to go to catch up to Emacs. But sometimes it surprises me with something like drag-and-drop anyway.
@elb Not gonna lie, literally this morning, command line skills saved me a day’s work by rescuing some files salvaged from an old laptop drive. GUI file manager couldn’t open the folder because of how it’s configured, even though it’s still just a folder. Sometimes, the “less fancy” tools get the job done.
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