From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: DevZero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp: Text-based file-chooser Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 01:15:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20110106001552.GA6076@phlegeton.tartaros> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294278928 6178 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2011 01:55:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 01:55:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 02:55:24 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Paf4V-00080q-Qu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:55:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40077 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Paf4V-0006Qs-Ec for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39093 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PadWG-0003qB-7f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:15:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PadWE-0000OI-7v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:15:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:54944 helo=mail.gmx.net) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PadWD-0000NV-RN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:15:54 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Jan 2011 00:15:51 -0000 Original-Received: from dslb-092-072-035-113.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO phlegeton.tartaros) [92.72.35.113] by mail.gmx.net (mp072) with SMTP; 06 Jan 2011 01:15:51 +0100 X-Authenticated: #110074317 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+xz15EQmqxo8QIMp8RhK45X66eot7OwlMM5RQr9+ KPLBnfEs03O5wt Original-Received: by phlegeton.tartaros (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0C70CB4; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 01:15:52 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt - The Right Choice User-Editor: Emacs - Its an OS - Build into itself! User-GPG: GPG-Encrypted and signed messages preferred! User-GPG-Key-ID: 0x9B8D89A6 User-GeekCode: GE/ITd-s:aC+++UL++++++++L+++E+++W+++N++oK++w---O-M--V--PS+++PE++Y+PGP++t++5--X++R-tv--b++DI+D++G++e+++hr+y** X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:52:15 -0500 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:78245 Archived-At: Msg from Larry Kohlman [nospam@nospam.invalid/1.9K] at 05.01/19:23 > I want a file-browsing dialog box, but I want it to be text-mode so it > can be used on a raw terminal or inside an xterm. Something roughly like > dired but that lets the user browse files and directories and only > returns the path with a selected or entered filename and does absolutely > nothing else. I know it's out there because I've seen it before, but I > just can't find the magic command or plugin. from your description i think you mean lusty-file-explorer... i used it myself for quite some time before switching to ido. there's a nice gif-preview of lusty-file-explorer in action here: http://viewglob.sourceforge.net/lusty-explorer.el.animated.gif get it from the emacs-wiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LustyExplorer greetz -- C Code. C Code Run. Run, Code, RUN! PLEASE!!!!