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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: (interactive "GSome prompt: ") on w32
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:15:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4428E29F.7030006@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uacbb9k21.fsf@jasonrumney.net>

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
>
>   
>> It looks to me like (interactive "G...") can not be used to choose a
>> file name when run from the menus (ie when a dialog box is displayed).
>>     
>
> It works for me. Can you please explain in more detail what happens
> when you run the following code:
>
> (defun test (filename) "testing"
>   (interactive "GFile")
>   (message filename))
>
> (define-key menu-bar-file-menu [test]
>   '(menu-item "Test" test :help "Testing"))
>
>   
Thanks for responding, Jason. Sorry, I should have written "can not be 
used to choose a directory name". I can choose a file but not a 
directory. Should not that be possible with "G"?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-28  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-26 20:36 (interactive "GSome prompt: ") on w32 Lennart Borgman
2006-03-28  6:09 ` Jason Rumney
2006-03-28  7:15   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-03-28  8:25     ` Jason Rumney
2006-03-28  9:07       ` Lennart Borgman

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