From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp: Text-based file-chooser Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:54:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87r5ctodqb.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294091716 3557 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 21:55:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:55:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 22:55:12 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 1PZsMx-0004Zi-Nl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:55:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58242 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZsMx-00040R-1q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:55:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57951 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZsM8-0003yt-Gu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:54:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZsM6-0006Al-Hw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:54:20 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZsM6-0006Ae-BZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:54:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZsM5-00044H-22 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:54:17 +0100 Original-Received: from 190.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:54:17 +0100 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 190.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:54:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 190.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KXSp5VJin8ynzX+6hu5WoeJF4X0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:78136 Archived-At: Larry Kohlman writes: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:13:10 +0100, Thierry Volpiatto wrote: > >> rusi writes: >> >>> On Jan 3, 2:34 am, Larry Kohlman wrote: >>>> Does elisp offer any text-based file-selection dialogs besides dired >>>> and find-file? >> >> Have you tried anything-find-files? > > Just now, but no luck. > > What I'm trying to do here is replace the GUI file selector with a more > general (and mouseless) text-mode hierarchical file-selector that I can > use both in a GUI and at a text-only console. My lisp code often uses > the GUI file selector to select files that I want to process in other > ways besides editing, so I need its replacement to only return the > filename and let me decide for myself what action to take. Sorry, i understand nothing of what you want to do. -- A+ Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997