diff --git a/src/dialogs/editconfigwidget.ui b/src/dialogs/editconfigwidget.ui
--- a/src/dialogs/editconfigwidget.ui
+++ b/src/dialogs/editconfigwidget.ui
@@ -161,6 +161,13 @@
       <string>Copy and Paste</string>
      </property>
      <layout class="QVBoxLayout">
+      <item>
+       <widget class="QCheckBox" name="chkTextDragAndDrop">
+        <property name="text">
+         <string>Move selected text by drag and drop</string>
+        </property>
+       </widget>
+      </item>
       <item>
        <widget class="QCheckBox" name="chkSmartCopyCut">
         <property name="text">
diff --git a/src/dialogs/katedialogs.cpp b/src/dialogs/katedialogs.cpp
--- a/src/dialogs/katedialogs.cpp
+++ b/src/dialogs/katedialogs.cpp
@@ -460,6 +460,7 @@
     observeChanges(ui->chkAutoBrackets);
     observeChanges(ui->chkMousePasteAtCursorPosition);
     observeChanges(ui->chkShowStaticWordWrapMarker);
+    observeChanges(ui->chkTextDragAndDrop);
     observeChanges(ui->chkSmartCopyCut);
     observeChanges(ui->chkStaticWordWrap);
     observeChanges(ui->cmbInputMode);
@@ -493,6 +494,7 @@
     KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::AutoBrackets, ui->chkAutoBrackets->isChecked());
     KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::InputMode, ui->cmbInputMode->currentData().toInt());
     KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::MousePasteAtCursorPosition, ui->chkMousePasteAtCursorPosition->isChecked());
+    KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::TextDragAndDrop, ui->chkTextDragAndDrop->isChecked());
     KateViewConfig::global()->setValue(KateViewConfig::SmartCopyCut, ui->chkSmartCopyCut->isChecked());
 
     KateDocumentConfig::global()->configEnd();
@@ -504,6 +506,7 @@
     ui->chkAutoBrackets->setChecked(KateViewConfig::global()->autoBrackets());
     ui->chkMousePasteAtCursorPosition->setChecked(KateViewConfig::global()->mousePasteAtCursorPosition());
     ui->chkShowStaticWordWrapMarker->setChecked(KateRendererConfig::global()->wordWrapMarker());
+    ui->chkTextDragAndDrop->setChecked(KateViewConfig::global()->textDragAndDrop());
     ui->chkSmartCopyCut->setChecked(KateViewConfig::global()->smartCopyCut());
     ui->chkStaticWordWrap->setChecked(KateDocumentConfig::global()->wordWrap());
 
diff --git a/src/utils/kateconfig.h b/src/utils/kateconfig.h
--- a/src/utils/kateconfig.h
+++ b/src/utils/kateconfig.h
@@ -983,6 +983,7 @@
         ShowScrollBarPreview,
         ShowScrollbars,
         ShowWordCount,
+        TextDragAndDrop,
         SmartCopyCut,
         ViInputModeStealKeys,
         ViRelativeLineNumbers,
@@ -1195,6 +1196,11 @@
         return value(WordCompletionRemoveTail).toBool();
     }
 
+    bool textDragAndDrop() const
+    {
+        return value(TextDragAndDrop).toBool();
+    }
+
     bool smartCopyCut() const
     {
         return value(SmartCopyCut).toBool();
diff --git a/src/utils/kateconfig.cpp b/src/utils/kateconfig.cpp
--- a/src/utils/kateconfig.cpp
+++ b/src/utils/kateconfig.cpp
@@ -550,6 +550,7 @@
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(ShowScrollBarPreview, "Scroll Bar Preview", QStringLiteral("scrollbar-preview"), true));
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(ShowScrollbars, "Show Scrollbars", QString(), AlwaysOn, [](const QVariant &value) { return inBounds(0, value, 2); }));
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(ShowWordCount, "Show Word Count", QString(), false));
+    addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(TextDragAndDrop, "Text Drag And Drop", QString(), true));
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(SmartCopyCut, "Smart Copy Cut", QString(), false));
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(ViInputModeStealKeys, "Vi Input Mode Steal Keys", QString(), false));
     addConfigEntry(ConfigEntry(ViRelativeLineNumbers, "Vi Relative Line Numbers", QString(), false));
diff --git a/src/view/kateviewinternal.cpp b/src/view/kateviewinternal.cpp
--- a/src/view/kateviewinternal.cpp
+++ b/src/view/kateviewinternal.cpp
@@ -2622,7 +2622,7 @@
             m_selectionCached = KTextEditor::Range::invalid();
         }
 
-        if (!(e->modifiers() & Qt::ShiftModifier) && isTargetSelected(e->pos())) {
+        if (view()->config()->textDragAndDrop() && !(e->modifiers() & Qt::ShiftModifier) && isTargetSelected(e->pos())) {
             m_dragInfo.state = diPending;
             m_dragInfo.start = e->pos();
         } else {
@@ -2915,7 +2915,7 @@
         }
 
     } else {
-        if (isTargetSelected(e->pos())) {
+        if (view()->config()->textDragAndDrop() && isTargetSelected(e->pos())) {
             // mouse is over selected text. indicate that the text is draggable by setting
             // the arrow cursor as other Qt text editing widgets do
             if (m_mouseCursor != Qt::ArrowCursor) {