Re: menu command

[Lajos Bodnar <bodnarlajoska@gmail.com>]

Hi Tomas,
Yes it's a correct answer. I found it before and I haven't seen that it's
working only if I use the mouse ...
I'd like to avoid the mouse click and external program (getfile.exe) in
this case.

thanks again!

regards,
Lajos

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 3:03 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 02:19:24PM +0200, Lajos Bodnar wrote:
> > Thanks,
> > I haven't found command in the "describe-key" result which open a
> > filedialog.
>
> Ah, I think I get it now: what confuses you is the opening
> of a GUI like file dialog?
>
> If I got you right this time, the best answer is in the
> source code:
>
> `find-file' calls `find-file-read-args' to to ask the user which
> file name (s)he wants. This one calls `read-file-name', which has
> a pretty extensive documentation string. I insert the relevant
> part here:
>
>     If this command was invoked with the mouse, use a graphical file
>     dialog if ‘use-dialog-box’ is non-nil, and the window system or X
>     toolkit in use provides a file dialog box, and DIR is not a
>     remote file.  For graphical file dialogs, any of the special values
>     of MUSTMATCH ‘confirm’ and ‘confirm-after-completion’ are
>     treated as equivalent to nil.  Some graphical file dialogs respect
>     a MUSTMATCH value of t, and some do not (or it only has a cosmetic
>     effect, and does not actually prevent the user from entering a
>     non-existent file).
>
> So this is the mechanism which adapts to how the user invoked `find-file':
> if the user used keys, then the question appears in the minibuffer, but
> if the user clicked on a menu, (s)he gets a GUI-like file browser (to
> me that makes a lot of sense).
>
> I hope I've understood your question better now.
>
> Cheers
> - -- tomás
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