unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using w32's find file dialog from the keyboard
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:14:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lkpukdy3.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5087.1155312944.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>  . Cheat:
>
>     (let (last-nonmenu-event)
>       (call-interactively 'find-file))

This sounds like the solution my friend wanted. I guess I could just
make that a command and bind it to some key, right?

> Out of curiosity: why would you wish to open the file selector so
> badly?

I don't :) This is for a friend that decided to give Emacs a second
try. I guess he want to make the switch gradually (I suggested he use
CUA-mode to begin with because he was put off too much by Emacs
"non-Windows-standard" bindings).

Thanks!

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-12  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-11 13:40 Using w32's find file dialog from the keyboard Mathias Dahl
2006-08-11 14:59 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-11 15:49 ` B. T. Raven
2006-08-12  0:11   ` Mathias Dahl
2006-08-11 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-11 23:42   ` Reiner Steib
     [not found] ` <mailman.5087.1155312944.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-12  0:14   ` Mathias Dahl [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m2lkpukdy3.fsf@gmail.com \
    --to=mathias.dahl@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).