feat: allow support for drag-and-drop between multiple editors

.changeset/many-glasses-reflect.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@tiptap/core": patch
+---
+
+Added support for drag-and-drop between multiple editors

demos/src/Experiments/GlobalDragHandle/Vue/DragHandle.js

@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ export default Extension.create({
     }
 
     function dragStart(e, view) {
-      view.composing = true
+      // Must delete this line, Otherwise: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property composing of #<EditorView> which has only a getter
+      // view.composing = true
 
       if (!e.dataTransfer) {
         return
@@ -75,6 +76,11 @@ export default Extension.create({
       }
     }
 
+    function dragEnd(e, view) {
+      // reset the dragging, otherwise wrong content after dragging across multi editors repeatedly
+      view.dragging = null
+    }
+
     let dropElement
     const WIDTH = 28
 
@@ -86,8 +92,10 @@ export default Extension.create({
           element.draggable = 'true'
           element.classList.add('global-drag-handle')
           element.addEventListener('dragstart', e => dragStart(e, editorView))
+          element.addEventListener('dragend', e => dragEnd(e, editorView))
           dropElement = element
-          document.body.appendChild(dropElement)
+          // append to editor's parentNode (not document.body), to match the logic of dragging across multi editors in pasteRule.ts
+          editorView.dom.parentNode.appendChild(dropElement)
 
           return {
             // update(view, prevState) {

demos/src/Experiments/MultipleEditors/Vue/index.vue

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 import Bold from '@tiptap/extension-bold'
 import Collaboration from '@tiptap/extension-collaboration'
 import Document from '@tiptap/extension-document'
+import DropCursor from '@tiptap/extension-dropcursor'
 import Heading from '@tiptap/extension-heading'
 import Paragraph from '@tiptap/extension-paragraph'
 import TaskItem from '@tiptap/extension-task-item'
@@ -75,6 +76,8 @@ export default {
           levels: [2],
         }),
         Text,
+        Bold,
+        DropCursor,
         Collaboration.configure({
           document: this.ydoc,
           field: 'title',
@@ -88,6 +91,8 @@ export default {
         TaskListDocument,
         Paragraph,
         Text,
+        Bold,
+        DropCursor,
         TaskList,
         CustomTaskItem,
         Collaboration.configure({
@@ -110,6 +115,7 @@ export default {
         Paragraph,
         Text,
         Bold,
+        DropCursor,
         Collaboration.configure({
           document: this.ydoc,
           field: 'description',

packages/core/src/PasteRule.ts

@@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ function run(config: {
   return success
 }
 
+// When dragging across editors, must get another editor instance to delete selection content.
+let tiptapDragFromOtherEditor: Editor | null = null
+
 const createClipboardPasteEvent = (text: string) => {
   const event = new ClipboardEvent('paste', {
     clipboardData: new DataTransfer(),
@@ -242,13 +245,25 @@ export function pasteRulesPlugin(props: { editor: Editor; rules: PasteRule[] }):
           dragSourceElement = view.dom.parentElement?.contains(event.target as Element)
             ? view.dom.parentElement
             : null
+
+          if (dragSourceElement) {
+            tiptapDragFromOtherEditor = editor
+          }
+        }
+
+        const handleDragend = () => {
+          if (tiptapDragFromOtherEditor) {
+            tiptapDragFromOtherEditor = null
+          }
         }
 
         window.addEventListener('dragstart', handleDragstart)
+        window.addEventListener('dragend', handleDragend)
 
         return {
           destroy() {
             window.removeEventListener('dragstart', handleDragstart)
+            window.removeEventListener('dragend', handleDragend)
           },
         }
       },
@@ -259,6 +274,20 @@ export function pasteRulesPlugin(props: { editor: Editor; rules: PasteRule[] }):
             isDroppedFromProseMirror = dragSourceElement === view.dom.parentElement
             dropEvent = event as DragEvent
 
+            if (!isDroppedFromProseMirror) {
+              const dragFromOtherEditor = tiptapDragFromOtherEditor
+
+              if (dragFromOtherEditor) {
+                // setTimeout to avoid the wrong content after drop, timeout arg can't be empty or 0
+                setTimeout(() => {
+                  const selection = dragFromOtherEditor.state.selection
+
+                  if (selection) {
+                    dragFromOtherEditor.commands.deleteRange({ from: selection.from, to: selection.to })
+                  }
+                }, 10)
+              }
+            }
             return false
           },