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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: steventamm@mac.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mmoll@rice.edu,
	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 04:57:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1CHISz-0003PD-5z@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21AF7CC2-1BA7-11D9-83F7-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se)

The reason that dired does not use read-directory-name is that the
input need not be a directory name.  The input is often a wildcard
file name pattern.

If the file name dialogs don't handle wildcard file name patterns,
Dired has to read them in the minibuffer.  This means that the
menu item for Open Directory needs to run another command that
reads input in a special way.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-12  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-08 22:55 find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken Mark Moll
2004-10-09 16:40 ` Steven Tamm
2004-10-09 17:14   ` Stefan
2004-10-09 17:26     ` David Kastrup
2004-10-09 17:33     ` Jan D.
2004-10-09 18:43       ` Miles Bader
2004-10-09 19:15         ` Jan D.
2004-10-09 19:27           ` Miles Bader
2004-10-09 20:20             ` Jan D.
2004-10-10  3:07               ` Steven Tamm
2004-10-10 15:15               ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-11 10:47                 ` Jan D.
2004-10-11 14:32                   ` Stefan
2004-10-11 17:01                     ` Jan D.
2004-10-11 21:38                       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-11 21:58                         ` Jason Rumney
2004-10-11 22:24                           ` Jan D.
2004-10-12  8:58                             ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-12  9:24                               ` David Kastrup
2004-10-12  8:57                       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-10-12  8:56                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-10 15:15           ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-10 15:15       ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-10 20:25         ` David Kastrup
2004-11-02  8:28         ` Need w32 help (was find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken) Jan D.
2004-11-02  8:46           ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-11-02  8:57             ` Need w32 help Jason Rumney
2004-11-02 10:49               ` Jan D.
2004-11-02 11:11                 ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-02 12:44                   ` Jan D.
2004-11-02 10:37             ` Need w32 help (was find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken) Jan D.
2004-10-09 18:01     ` find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken Jason Rumney

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