From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter S Galbraith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: A question about GTK file selection dialog and `use-dialog-box' Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:49:04 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20106.1069904944@mixed> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069905514 24280 80.91.224.253 (27 Nov 2003 03:58:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 03:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 27 04:58:32 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1APDIW-0000Tv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:58:32 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1APDIW-0001MM-00 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:58:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1APEEi-0008MQ-SS for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:58:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1APEEf-0008MK-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:58:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1APEE9-0007vD-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.110.154.162] (helo=mixed.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1APEE9-0007ts-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:58:05 -0500 Original-Received: by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5D504719D5; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:49:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mixed (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC8371983 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:49:05 -0500 (EST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.3+cvs; nmh 1.1-RC1; GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2 X-Image-URL: http://people.debian.org/~psg/face.png X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18158 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18158 Hi all, Using a GTK build of CVS Emacs, I see that `read-file-name' uses a GTK file selector instead of the minbuffer. I had to disable it because it's very awkward to use compared to the minibuffer (no history or completion). The only advertised way to disable it is to unset `use-dialog-box', which also disables the nice `y-or-n-p' and `yes-or-no-p' pop-ups (I like thoese!). It would be great if the GTK file selector's minibuffer area acted like the minibuffer (history and completion). If not, then consider providing a way to disable the file selector without disabling `y-or-n-p' and `yes-or-no-p' pop-ups. Thanks, Peter