Re: Bad file dialog on W32 popped up by a click on C source

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>"C-h f some-function RET" shows "C source file" for functions defined
>in C.  If you click on the xref, and if the source files are not in
>the place where Emacs expects to find them (e.g., if you removed the
>source tree), Emacs pops up a file dialog asking you to find the
>directory of the source file.  So far so good, but, at least on W32, I
>see 2 problems with this dialog:
>
>  . it doesn't say what directory it is looking for and doesn't show
>    me the name of the file, so I need to guess that it wants the src
>    directory
>
>  . if I select the src directory where the file lives and click Open,
>    it errors out saying "Current Directory -- file not found"
>
>The latter problem seems to be specific to MS-Windows, as it overrides
>the file name with a literal string "Current Directory"; this works
>with File->Open Directory from the menu bar, but fails in the above
>situation.  I'm not sure whether the former problem is MS-Windows
>specific.
>
>Any suggestions for how to solve this?
>  
>
Would it be better to use the standard directory dialog (rather than the 
file dialog)?