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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bad file dialog on W32 popped up by a click on C source
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:36:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubr6b1nqr.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u8y1f7l8d.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:33:54 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> "C-h f some-function RET" shows "C source file" for functions defined
> in C.  If you click on the xref, and if the source files are not in
> the place where Emacs expects to find them (e.g., if you removed the
> source tree), Emacs pops up a file dialog asking you to find the
> directory of the source file.

I just get "find-function-C-source: The C source file w32fns.c is not
available" 

>   . it doesn't say what directory it is looking for and doesn't show
>     me the name of the file, so I need to guess that it wants the src
>     directory

Seems like a problem with the prompt.

>   . if I select the src directory where the file lives and click Open,
>     it errors out saying "Current Directory -- file not found"

An Emacs error in the echo area, or a system error in a dialog?
If the latter then it is caused by the file-must-exist flag being set,
which does not work for directories.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-12 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-12 13:33 Bad file dialog on W32 popped up by a click on C source Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-12 14:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-12 15:11   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-12 16:32   ` Jason Rumney
2005-06-12 17:36 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2005-06-12 18:09   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-12 18:36     ` Jason Rumney
2005-06-12 20:54       ` Jason Rumney

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