From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ted" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: different behaviour between emacs on linux and emacs on windows Date: 5 Jul 2006 20:32:55 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1152156774.947841.211670@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> References: <1152146462.289905.295140@v61g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152157237 20395 80.91.229.2 (6 Jul 2006 03:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 03:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 06 05:40:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyKj3-0001p2-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyKj3-0001Pk-Af for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:40:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.198.217.178 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1152156780 16630 127.0.0.1 (6 Jul 2006 03:33:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 03:33:00 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.198.217.178; posting-account=m2jOVg0AAABhOi546jDXstV6XBpf3YTy Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140209 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35835 Archived-At: Hi Johan Thanks. Johan Bockg=E5rd wrote: > "Ted" writes: > > > Instead, I have to remember where all my files are and type in the > > full path and file name. > > Have you tried the TAB key? > Maybe this shows how little I have used Linux in recent years, but what would using the TAB key do for me, other than insert a tab in whatever text I am working with? > > Is there a dialog of the sort I value available in emacs running on > > Linux, just hiding somewhere waiting to be found and enabled? > > It depends on which toolkit Emacs was compiled with. File selection > dialogs are available with the Motif/LessTif (and GTK for Emacs 22) > toolkits. Also, a dialog is only used if you invoke the command > through the file menu, not when you use the keyboard. (And > use-dialog-box must be non-nil, but it should be by default.) > Having used Windows and OS/2 extensively, I normally use the file menu if I want to do something with a file. How would I find out? I am using the default configuration of emacs that is used by SUSE Linux version 10, if that tells you anything useful. Thanks, Ted