From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8181: 23.2; Dired on Windows 7 Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:17:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4D72BF5D.20403@comcast.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299422227 18701 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2011 14:37:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:37:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rieachus@comcast.net, 8181@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 15:37:02 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 1PwF4v-0003Pn-Va for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:37:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37435 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwF4v-0007RX-97 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47232 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwF4n-0007Qo-7a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:36:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwF4m-0001ZZ-0T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37677) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwF4l-0001ZV-Tc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:36:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PwEmY-00016j-8c; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:18:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii 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 14:18:02 +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=B8181.12994210334169 (code B ref 8181); Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:18:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8181) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Mar 2011 14:17:13 +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 1PwEll-00015C-0H for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:17:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PwElj-00014x-Mc for 8181@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:17:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwEle-00070u-5A; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:17:06 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Dani Moncayo on Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:14:26 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:18:02 -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:44698 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:14:26 +0100 > From: Dani Moncayo > Cc: 8181@debbugs.gnu.org > > I tested this on Windows XP (2011-02-28 published binaries). The > behavior seems to be this: You have to navigate through the directory > tree until you are _inside_ the directory you want to open in dired. > Then simply click "Open" (yes, even though there isn't anything > selected). Yes. > FWIW, this doesn't seems too clean to me. IMO, It would be more > intuitive to be able to select the directory you want to open, and > then click "Open". Tell this to Microsoft. AFAIK, this is a limitation of their file/directory selection dialog.