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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: steventamm@mac.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mmoll@rice.edu,
	rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:01:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21AF7CC2-1BA7-11D9-83F7-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hdp1iawi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>


>> I don't know what is best, to have a new function that reads 
>> directories,
>> or to extend the MUST-MATCH parameter with some value that indicates
>> a directory read.
>
> What's wrong with read-directory-name?

Nothing, except dired does not use it, it uses read-file-name and the
information that a directory is wanted is in the predicate, so it is
not easy in the general case for read-file-name to figure out that
a directory is wanted (the caller may have written its own predicate).

	Jan D.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-11 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-08 22:55 find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken Mark Moll
2004-10-09 16:40 ` Steven Tamm
2004-10-09 17:14   ` Stefan
2004-10-09 17:26     ` David Kastrup
2004-10-09 17:33     ` Jan D.
2004-10-09 18:43       ` Miles Bader
2004-10-09 19:15         ` Jan D.
2004-10-09 19:27           ` Miles Bader
2004-10-09 20:20             ` Jan D.
2004-10-10  3:07               ` Steven Tamm
2004-10-10 15:15               ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-11 10:47                 ` Jan D.
2004-10-11 14:32                   ` Stefan
2004-10-11 17:01                     ` Jan D. [this message]
2004-10-11 21:38                       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-11 21:58                         ` Jason Rumney
2004-10-11 22:24                           ` Jan D.
2004-10-12  8:58                             ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-12  9:24                               ` David Kastrup
2004-10-12  8:57                       ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-12  8:56                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-10 15:15           ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-10 15:15       ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-10 20:25         ` David Kastrup
2004-11-02  8:28         ` Need w32 help (was find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken) Jan D.
2004-11-02  8:46           ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-11-02  8:57             ` Need w32 help Jason Rumney
2004-11-02 10:49               ` Jan D.
2004-11-02 11:11                 ` Jason Rumney
2004-11-02 12:44                   ` Jan D.
2004-11-02 10:37             ` Need w32 help (was find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken) Jan D.
2004-10-09 18:01     ` find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken Jason Rumney

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