From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GTK file selector Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:00:43 +0100 Message-ID: <877ja6wx8k.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <1134552456.439fe58850f31@imp5-g19.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134648813 27246 80.91.229.2 (15 Dec 2005 12:13:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:13:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 15 13:13:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Emryy-0004b9-4d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:13:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmryS-0001mo-PW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:12:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Emp2s-0003Zu-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:05:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Emp2n-0003ZH-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:04:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Emp2j-0003Z2-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:04:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Emp4w-0003uK-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Emp0e-0001fQ-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:02:44 +0100 Original-Received: from i5387d231.versanet.de ([83.135.210.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:02:44 +0100 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i5387d231.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:02:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i5387d231.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47782 Archived-At: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:28:14 +0100 Frank Schmitt wrote: > Jérôme Marant writes: > >> I usually prefer Emacs compiled with Athena widgets. Nonetheless, >> I decided to give the GTK version a try, again. >> >> I may be dumb but with the current GTK file selector, I did not find >> any way to view dotfiles and dotdirectories. So, I was unable to >> open my .emacs nor to enter my .emacs.d directory. >> >> Also, there is no textarea where I could enter a filename manually. >> >> Is there something to configure I missed? > > No, just hit / in the dialog, this gives you a small window where you > can enter the path and filename. You can also use C-l to open the dialog > box. If you type any non-function or non-prefix key while the dialog is foregrounded, it opens an even smaller text box with the value of the key already inserted and the first entry in the current directory that matches the value highlighted (as I just discovered by doing that on a whim). Steve Berman