>>This is a simple thing which works in any fox's editing window, even a modify memo, but not in an editbox: select a piece of text, (optionally press ctrl) and drag the selection elsewhere in the text. You should have the selection moved (or copied) to where you dropped it.
>>
>>Not so in en editbox. As soon as you click to drag, it unselects.
>>
>>Is there some simple property which would make this work? Or is there some code to write? I looked at the article at https://hackfox.github.io/section4/s4g356.html, but it's about dragging whole controls and OleDrag, not drag-n-drop editing.
>
>It does work with the Richtext control though.

I manipulate text a lot, use it to generate html, insert bits at .selstart at times, wrap .seltext with html tags (just a few simple ones), the link placeholders in it are delimited with braces... Doing that in plain text is a bit of a pain; doing that in rtf would require serious painkillers.