From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Larry Kohlman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp: Text-based file-chooser Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:01:49 -0600 Message-ID: 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 1294083662 28406 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 19:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 19:41:02 +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 20:40:58 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 1PZqH0-0004LL-6J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:40:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZqGv-000624-PX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:40:49 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:01:48 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: sv3-79NzbRNO7UG3Wmh6BgCWTSHytdkLEVW2EM2BW+Bynxz97oo770bqsG3jEyAaKR89VorRn6mlKztdxtl!wVk6CQ4Uiepdr8NYVcF8tFea1nreZhkSmrzYyUPXx/iIhsqWHhujqOW53Rby6cCeOVWBTdXz7F6n!AFasW+xP Original-X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1883 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183920 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:78130 Archived-At: 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.