With Emacs, you can have a drag event without even changing your clothes. A drag event happens every time the user presses a mouse button and then moves the mouse to a different character position before releasing the button. Like all mouse events, drag events are represented in Lisp as lists. The lists record both the starting mouse position and the final position, like this:
(event-type
(window1 START-POSITION)
(window2 END-POSITION))
For a drag event, the name of the symbol event-type contains the
prefix ‘drag-’. For example, dragging the mouse with button 2
held down generates a drag-mouse-2 event. The second and third
elements of the event give the starting and ending position of the
drag. They have the same form as position in a click event
(see Click Events) that is not on the scroll bar part of the
window. You can access the second element of any mouse event in the
same way, with no need to distinguish drag events from others.
The ‘drag-’ prefix follows the modifier key prefixes such as ‘C-’ and ‘M-’.
If read-key-sequence receives a drag event that has no key
binding, and the corresponding click event does have a binding, it
changes the drag event into a click event at the drag's starting
position. This means that you don't have to distinguish between click
and drag events unless you want to.