From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: different behaviour between emacs on linux and emacs on windows Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:47:15 +0200 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Message-ID: References: <1152146462.289905.295140@v61g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152153657 8574 80.91.229.2 (6 Jul 2006 02:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 02:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 06 04:40:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyJnH-00031V-3x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:40:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyJnF-0007XA-RH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!129.16.222.141.MISMATCH!gide.ita.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: iota202.dd.chalmers.se Original-X-Trace: gide.ita.chalmers.se 1152150435 12906 129.16.117.102 (6 Jul 2006 01:47:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@gide.ita.chalmers.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 01:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+o7gJxew//BVNRY1GBLZytDm8qQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140208 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35834 Archived-At: "Ted" writes: > Instead, I have to remember where all my files are and type in the > full path and file name. Have you tried the TAB key? > Is there a dialog of the sort I value available in emacs running on > Linux, just hiding somewhere waiting to be found and enabled? It depends on which toolkit Emacs was compiled with. File selection dialogs are available with the Motif/LessTif (and GTK for Emacs 22) toolkits. Also, a dialog is only used if you invoke the command through the file menu, not when you use the keyboard. (And use-dialog-box must be non-nil, but it should be by default.) -- Johan Bockgård