From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:15:43 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2E4D1BEC-197D-11D9-8298-00039384A728@rice.edu> <5860A2EC-1A19-11D9-BB9A-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> <20041009184338.GB22402@fencepost> <20041009192700.GA29314@fencepost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097421420 19500 80.91.229.6 (10 Oct 2004 15:17:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: steventamm@mac.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mmoll@rice.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 10 17:16:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CGfRO-0000AD-00 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:16:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CGfYH-0008Nm-Af for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CGfXg-00087K-JC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CGfXf-00086h-9n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CGfXf-00086Z-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CGfQF-0004Tn-UX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CGfQF-0002rV-GO; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:15:43 -0400 Original-To: "Jan D." In-reply-to: (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28178 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28178 First we must agree on what MUST-MATCH means. The Motif dialog box thinks MUST-MATCH means that the user must select a file that exists and has the name of the default file (or initial). I am having trouble understanding this. It sounds like you are saying that the Motif dialog box in the MUST-MATCH != nil case says to the user, "Specify a file, but it has to be THIS one." Like elections in the Soviet Union where the only alternative was to vote for Stalin. Maybe I did not understand clearly. In any case, what MUST-MATCH != nil means in Emacs is that the user can specify any existing file. If that is not what read-file-name does now with the Motif toolkit in that case, that's a bug. Can you fix it?