From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: elisp: Text-based file-chooser
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:11:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=1OkK151A7Z0VqLuSS0jNOGwW9hrwaf_HLY9sh@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gvCdnTfjOeFecLnQnZ2dnUVZ_hmdnZ2d@supernews.com>
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Larry Kohlman <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:06:59 -0800, Drew Adams wrote:
>
>>> > So I guess you're saying that you do not want (necessarily) to visit
>>> > the file, you just want to read a file name.
>>>
>>> Exactly.
>>>
>>> > But you do not want to use the
>>> > "GUI file selector", by which I suppose you mean a file-selection
>>> > dialog box. Is that it?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Dunno what such an animal is or how you get it. By "dialog box" I meant
>> a graphic dialog box, not available from a terminal.
>
> Dialog boxes don't have to be graphical. In fact Linux has an old
> utility called "dialog" that's used by scripts to put up different kinds
> of dialog boxes on a purely text console.
I haven't followed the discussion very closely, but looks like all you
want is a way to browse a directory tree and select file names (or
file paths) and use it later.
If that is what you want why not give dired another look with `(put
'dired-find-alternate-file 'disabled nil)' to browse and to copy file
names use `w', to copy the full path `0 w' (C-h f
dired-copy-filename-as-kill RET)?
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-05 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-02 21:34 elisp: Text-based file-chooser Larry Kohlman
2011-01-02 22:17 ` Tim X
2011-01-02 22:19 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-02 23:22 ` Tim X
2011-01-02 23:23 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-03 18:52 ` suvayu ali
2011-01-03 19:01 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-03 20:24 ` suvayu ali
[not found] ` <mailman.10.1294080791.3992.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-03 22:41 ` Tim X
2011-01-03 2:44 ` rusi
2011-01-03 9:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1294046010.4869.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-03 19:01 ` Larry Kohlman
2011-01-03 21:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-03 21:54 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.8.1294091516.614.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-05 18:23 ` Larry Kohlman
2011-01-05 18:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-05 19:06 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.12.1294254429.15599.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-05 22:16 ` Larry Kohlman
2011-01-05 23:11 ` suvayu ali [this message]
2011-01-05 23:15 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.11.1294253952.15599.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-05 23:46 ` Larry Kohlman
2011-01-06 7:46 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-06 8:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-06 0:15 ` DevZero
2011-01-03 16:57 ` José A. Romero L.
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