From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:24:31 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2E4D1BEC-197D-11D9-8298-00039384A728@rice.edu> <5860A2EC-1A19-11D9-BB9A-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> <20041009184338.GB22402@fencepost> <20041009192700.GA29314@fencepost> <416A64D8.2050404@swipnet.se> <21AF7CC2-1BA7-11D9-83F7-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> <4ED5D31F-1BD4-11D9-9A06-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097573518 16872 80.91.229.6 (12 Oct 2004 09:31:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:31:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: steventamm@mac.com, mmoll@rice.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, "Jan D." , miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 12 11:31:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CHJ0V-00081K-00 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:31:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CHJ7T-0007Oj-NC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CHJ1T-0005sh-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:32:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CHJ1S-0005s3-AE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:32:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CHJ1N-0005r9-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CHItc-0005K1-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CHItV-0004SL-3U; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:24:33 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 12 Oct 2004 04:58:04 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28288 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28288 Richard Stallman writes: > >> So what about changing dired -- that must be a trivial change. > > Yes, but we must change read-file-name also so the information that this > is a directory open is passed down to x-file-dialog somehow. > > > > > Would the following still work? > > > > C-x d > > ~/emacs/src/p* > > As long as no file dialog is involved, it should work. > > Those two statements seem mutually contradictory. > The first says that Dired would use a file dialog, > and the second says that it won't. We get file dialogs only for commands started with a mouse. C-x d will give the normal minibuffer dialog instead. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum