From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert I. Eachus" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8181: 23.2; Dired on Windows 7 Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:40:34 -0500 Message-ID: <4D72D802.7080805@comcast.net> References: <4D72BF5D.20403@comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299373649 26879 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2011 01:07:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 01:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8181@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 02:07:24 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw2RP-00064a-D3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:07:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pw2RO-0000eT-Kt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:07:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43446 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pw2Qw-0000Ri-D4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:06:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw2Qv-0005Tr-9x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:06:54 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw2Qv-0005Tn-6w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:06:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw21t-0004pK-JT; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:41:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Robert I. Eachus" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:41:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8181 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8181-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8181.129937205218539 (code B ref 8181); Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8181) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Mar 2011 00:40:52 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw21k-0004oy-J1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:40:52 -0500 Original-Received: from qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.56]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pw21j-0004on-Db for 8181@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:40:51 -0500 Original-Received: from omta14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.60]) by qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id FcZF1g0051HzFnQ56cgn6C; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:40:47 +0000 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([98.216.6.222]) by omta14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Fcgk1g01g4nRKc23acgmN9; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:40:46 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:41:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:44684 Archived-At: On 3/5/2011 7:08 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Robert I. Eachus wrote: >> Choosing Open Directory from the File menu opens a standard (Windows 7) >> window that allows you to walk the directory tree, but there is no way >> to open a directory in dired mode that I can find. Cx d on the other >> hand opens an emacs buffer in dired mode. (Normal behavior) > See `use-file-dialog' Thanks for the quick answer, but I think you may be missing the point. First the File menu choice Open Directory, says that the keyboard equivalent is C-x d. But the two are completely different in behavior. Second, if you do use the menu option, there is no way to select a directory, even though you can navigate through them. I ran into this by accident, browsing through a large C source library. I used Cx d nine times (or a dozen) before I went to use the menu since I had a cup in my left hand. I then wanted to see if I would get a dired buffer when I selected a directory, but instead I found that there is either no way to select a directory, or the choice gets silently lost. It is not a big deal for me. Even if I am drinking something hot, I can type Cx d with my right hand. If nothing gets done I may submit a fix sometime when I am not in the process of digesting the source of a different application.