Disable click and drag cut and paste in IntelliJ Idea IDE

Question

In my IntelliJ Idea 13.1.2 IDE I keep running into situations where I\'m selecting on a click and drag via my laptop touch pad. I keep accidentally clicking and dragging text an

Answer 1

I found it in Settings → Editor → General.

Under the Mouse heading. The option is called "Enable Drag'n'Drop functionality in editor".

This also seems to disable drag and drop moving of files though.

Answer 2

In WebStorm 2020.1 (and presumably in other Jetbrains IDEs), the related option 'Move code fragments with drag-and-drop' is in Preferences > Editor > General:

Unchecking the checkbox does the trick without unwanted side effects such as also disabling the drag-and-drop operations for files etc.

Answer 3

There is no way to disable Drag-n-drop highlighted text in the editor itself!!! ALT guard for drag-n-drop files is a good idea as I accidentally drag and drop files on daily basis. Kudos for discovering that I just enabled it.

I have contacted Intellij support to give us a setting that we can disable in editor drag and drop. I think that is a stupid feature in the first place...