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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Lajos Bodnar <bodnarlajoska@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: menu command
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:03:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180827130300.GD16347@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPibjnk8OtQDn6UNHx-a2hDci1cafL=4yKOdkwt3u6cUcZONAQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 02:19:24PM +0200, Lajos Bodnar wrote:
> Thanks,
> I haven't found command in the "describe-key" result which open a
> filedialog.

Ah, I think I get it now: what confuses you is the opening
of a GUI like file dialog?

If I got you right this time, the best answer is in the
source code:

`find-file' calls `find-file-read-args' to to ask the user which
file name (s)he wants. This one calls `read-file-name', which has
a pretty extensive documentation string. I insert the relevant
part here:

    If this command was invoked with the mouse, use a graphical file
    dialog if ‘use-dialog-box’ is non-nil, and the window system or X
    toolkit in use provides a file dialog box, and DIR is not a
    remote file.  For graphical file dialogs, any of the special values
    of MUSTMATCH ‘confirm’ and ‘confirm-after-completion’ are
    treated as equivalent to nil.  Some graphical file dialogs respect
    a MUSTMATCH value of t, and some do not (or it only has a cosmetic
    effect, and does not actually prevent the user from entering a
    non-existent file).

So this is the mechanism which adapts to how the user invoked `find-file':
if the user used keys, then the question appears in the minibuffer, but
if the user clicked on a menu, (s)he gets a GUI-like file browser (to
me that makes a lot of sense).

I hope I've understood your question better now.

Cheers
- -- tomás
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-27 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-27  9:45 menu command Lajos Bodnar
2018-08-27 11:21 ` tomas
2018-08-27 12:19   ` Lajos Bodnar
2018-08-27 13:03     ` tomas [this message]
2018-08-27 13:38       ` Lajos Bodnar
2018-08-28 16:13         ` Lajos Bodnar

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