From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#617: doc string of use-dialog-box Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:35:17 -0700 Message-ID: <004201c8f017$84874230$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Drew Adams , 617@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217188726 4452 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2008 19:58:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:58:46 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 27 21:59:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNCOg-0007BR-Bf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:59:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36466 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNBHJ-0005cj-Gm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:34:56 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.4.133.106) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:34:55 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcjwF4QEkxRg6OrJRtOIOJ8b7Q80Hw== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:47:26 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:18880 Archived-At: Unlike the doc for `use-dialog-box' in the Emacs manual, the doc string does not mention this: "This also controls whether to use file selection windows (but those are not supported on all platforms)." In fact, the doc string gives the impression that the variable's effect is limited to yes-or-no queries, which is false. In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-03-26 on RELEASE Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'