bug#14215: "Visit new file" not working in windows 7

bug#14215: "Visit new file" not working in windows 7

[Munk]

Hi,

in the Emacs binary for Windows, the toolbar button for "Visit new file" does not work correctly anymore. Similarly, clicking "File" -> "Visit new file..." does not work. The only thing that works for me for setting up a new file seems to be the keystrokes C-x C-f .

Some more details, starting from `emacs -Q':
- click on toolbar button "Visit new file", or menu "File" -> "Visit new file..." 
- in the file selector popping up, navigate to the desired directory
- in the field "file name" of the file selector, enter the name of the new file
- now press enter, or click on "Open"
=> nothing happens. The file selector popup stays open, no new file is opened. You can only exit with "cancel"


I hope you can reproduce this.

Best regards,
Tobias



System: Windows 7

In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
 of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --cflags
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8/include/libxml2'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: DEU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <tool-bar> <new-file> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <file> <new-file> <help-echo> 
C-x C-f <backspace> <C-backspace> <C-backspace> <C-backspace> 
<C-backspace> <C-backspace> <C-backspace> D <tab> o 
<tab> <backspace> 0 <tab> <tab> M y <tab> <tab> t m 
<tab> <backspace> <backspace> <tab> <tab> <tab> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <tab> <tab> M y <tab> <tab> 
t <tab> <tab> m p <tab> <tab> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> \ <tab> <tab> M y <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> 
<tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> D o 
<tab> c <tab> <tab> t m <tab> t e s t . t x t <return> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> C-x r e p o <tab> <backspace> 
M-x r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Quit [2 times]
Making completion list... [6 times]
(New file)
Making completion list...
delete-backward-char: Text is read-only [6 times]
mouse-yank-primary: No selection is available
delete-backward-char: Text is read-only

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml
mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev
gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
mail-prsvr mail-utils help-mode easymenu time-date tooltip ediff-hook
vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp w32-common-fns
disp-table w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu
font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan
thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces
cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format
env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote
make-network-process w32 multi-tty emacs)

bug#14215: "Visit new file" not working in windows 7

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:23:15 +0100 (BST)
> From: Munk <wirhd-2@yahoo.de>
> 
> in the Emacs binary for Windows, the toolbar button for "Visit new file" does not work correctly anymore. Similarly, clicking "File" -> "Visit new file..." does not work. The only thing that works for me for setting up a new file seems to be the keystrokes C-x C-f .
> 
> Some more details, starting from `emacs -Q':
> - click on toolbar button "Visit new file", or menu "File" -> "Visit new file..." 
> - in the file selector popping up, navigate to the desired directory
> - in the field "file name" of the file selector, enter the name of the new file
> - now press enter, or click on "Open"
> => nothing happens. The file selector popup stays open, no new file is opened. You can only exit with "cancel"
> 
> 
> I hope you can reproduce this.

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this, neither on Windows 7 nor on
XP.

Are you sure this is Emacs 24.3?  There was a problem with file
selector dialog, but it was solved before Emacs 24.3 was released.

If you indeed see this in Emacs 24.3, please show the exact steps to
reproduce this, and also see if the problem happens with any file in
any directory on any drive/volume, or just with some of them.

bug#14215: "Visit new file" not working in windows 7

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:12:41 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 14215@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:23:15 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Munk <wirhd-2@yahoo.de>
> > 
> > in the Emacs binary for Windows, the toolbar button for "Visit new file" does not work correctly anymore. Similarly, clicking "File" -> "Visit new file..." does not work. The only thing that works for me for setting up a new file seems to be the keystrokes C-x C-f .
> > 
> > Some more details, starting from `emacs -Q':
> > - click on toolbar button "Visit new file", or menu "File" -> "Visit new file..." 
> > - in the file selector popping up, navigate to the desired directory
> > - in the field "file name" of the file selector, enter the name of the new file
> > - now press enter, or click on "Open"
> > => nothing happens. The file selector popup stays open, no new file is opened. You can only exit with "cancel"
> > 
> > 
> > I hope you can reproduce this.
> 
> Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this, neither on Windows 7 nor on
> XP.
> 
> Are you sure this is Emacs 24.3?  There was a problem with file
> selector dialog, but it was solved before Emacs 24.3 was released.
> 
> If you indeed see this in Emacs 24.3, please show the exact steps to
> reproduce this, and also see if the problem happens with any file in
> any directory on any drive/volume, or just with some of them.

I think this bug is a duplicate of #13065, which was solved in the
development sources.  So I'm closing this.