Stefan Monnier wrote:

> And yes, the text is pretty long. Suince the old Gtk dialog is on the way
>
>out, I'd rather not advertise it, and instead try and make the new dialog
>more usable.  I think the only important info from this text is the
>C-l thingy.  Could we even do away with it by making the text
>input area appear unconditionally?
>

As the text input area is a separate dialog that would be confusing.  
And irritating if you don't want the text inout area.


Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>It looks better than I expected.  I recommend changing the message to this:
>
>
>Type C-l to display a file name text entry box.
>
>If you don't like this file selector, customize
>use-file-dialog to turn it off, or type C-x C-f to visit files.
>  
>

I've changed it to the above.

    Jan D.