# Cannot drag-and-drop text into a reply window. Also (c) and (r) trouble **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [February 13, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-drag-and-drop-text-into-a-reply-window-also-c-and-r-trouble/959392 "2022-02-13T08:09:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-drag-and-drop-text-into-a-reply-window-also-c-and-r-trouble/959392/1 "2022-02-13T08:09:25Z")
@codinghorror , I just noticed this: I cannot drag-and-drop text from another place into a reply that I am composing. Copy-and-paste works fine, but not drag-and-drop. While creating this thread, I see that I also cannot drag-and-drop text into the Title text box. I happened to notice this while trying to insert an oddball character. This MacBook has a special-character app and Firefox has a menu item to open it. In this app, I cannot copy a character to the clip-board, but I can drag it. Thus, I could not insert the special character by either method. As for that special character, BTW: I was trying to insert the Registered Trademark symbol, (r). As you can see here, typing (r) doesn’t seem to work. Nor does (c) give me a Copyright symbol. IIRC, these two substitutions used to work, but never entirely consistently. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-drag-and-drop-text-into-a-reply-window-also-c-and-r-trouble/959392/2 "2022-02-13T16:55:57Z")
Hmm, you’re right about drag-and-drop. ® and © work but (r) and (c) do not. (First two generated by option-r and option-g respectively). ---
**Author:** ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pmusaraj/32/10511_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmusaraj)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-drag-and-drop-text-into-a-reply-window-also-c-and-r-trouble/959392/3 "2022-03-14T14:20:11Z")
Thanks for the report, @Senegoid. I am a developer at Discourse and looked into this issue. It’s a side effect of an open source library we use to allow drag-and-dropping files into our composer. For some reason, it was blocking text dragging. I wrote a fix and contributed it to the library (called Uppy, [link to the fix](https://github.com/transloadit/uppy/pull/3563)). We need to wait for the library to release the fix before we can include it in Discourse, so I suspect it will take a couple of weeks before it makes it way here. (But eventually, it will!) Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-drag-and-drop-text-into-a-reply-window-also-c-and-r-trouble/959392/4 "2022-03-15T17:29:07Z")
It’s my understanding that (R) and (C) were disabled because they (especially C) were messing with letter-ordered lists, giving us (A) (B) © (D) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-drag-and-drop-text-into-a-reply-window-also-c-and-r-trouble/959392/5 "2022-03-15T18:45:56Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > It’s my understanding that (R) and (C) were disabled because they (especially C) were messing with letter-ordered lists, . . . Perhaps so, and if so, it’s probably for the better. What was worse (and I mentioned it in a post a while back), if you tried to override the substitution of (c) with © by scattering backslashes around, that worked or didn’t work very inconsistently. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-drag-and-drop-text-into-a-reply-window-also-c-and-r-trouble/959392/6 "2022-03-17T20:46:00Z")
You may wish to try `®` instead to get ®. Also, `™` gets you ™, and `©` gets you ©. (These are part of HTML.) ---
**Author:** ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pmusaraj/32/10511_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmusaraj)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-drag-and-drop-text-into-a-reply-window-also-c-and-r-trouble/959392/7 "2022-03-24T15:36:42Z")
This issue is now fixed, thanks again for the report. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-drag-and-drop-text-into-a-reply-window-also-c-and-r-trouble/959392/8 "2022-03-27T22:12:38Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > (R) and (C) were disabled because they (especially C) were messing with letter-ordered lists Yes, that’s correct, use the HTML entity or the emoji symbols in those cases… feel free to Google as needed.