From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GTK file selector Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:52:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1134552456.439fe58850f31@imp5-g19.free.fr> <877ja6wx8k.fsf@escher.local.home> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134698216 27674 80.91.229.2 (16 Dec 2005 01:56:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 16 02:56:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1En4pN-0007qr-2V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:56:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1En4q2-0006gv-Ka for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:56:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1En4nb-0005eC-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:54:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1En4na-0005dq-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:54:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1En4na-0005dj-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:54:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1En4pv-0001wi-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:56:43 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1En4lT-0007E4-O2; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:52:07 -0500 Original-To: Stephen Berman In-reply-to: <877ja6wx8k.fsf@escher.local.home> (message from Stephen Berman on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:00:43 +0100) 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:47836 Archived-At: > 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). These sound like reasonable features. What is missing is something to give the user a clue to them.