Is there any way to disable the delay for text dragging in OS X?
There is a small delay between selecting and dragging text, if you start dragging the text right after you selected it – it will instead re-select the text which can be annoying. Some apps don't have this delay (for example Sublime Text 2/3 where you can drag the text immediately after selecting it) but in most apps you would have to click the left mouse button and hold it for a bit before you can drag the selected text.
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I think the default is 1 second, which is far too long for me. I find 100ms better.
defaults write -g NSDragAndDropTextDelay -int 100should work just fine.
Apps need to be relaunched after changing that value.
Setting a negative number will disable drag altogether; zero sets it to immediate.