From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File dialog on 22.1 w32 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:58:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181576439 18443 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2007 15:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:40:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 11 17:40:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1Hxm0N-0001Za-9J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hxm0M-0001D9-OG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:40:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:59:00 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.45.140.8 Original-X-Trace: sv3-LpZ9Vmd1F3hxAKxrH9Cx5Khtx2MApdd3o93zHpI3a8YMJFWziOg23nlaPF8kSfIcJXSpPD/w8Myw6Jn!+SgfgrFw0eNkovJ7I/SjXRBgaP66xc8DkocxADt7NN0R1hjFcZs4su9PZvV4+RRdKYk+KMfwhhMV!/yZEuZGQwy62WQm+RztyZQuaesk6 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149301 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:44889 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:04:16 -0500 >> From: "B. T. Raven" >> >> Using the new release: >> >> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222) >> of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE >> >> I still can't get file dialog to to open when I click on File > Open File. >> Instead I see "Find file: .." in the minibuffer. Both Use Dialog Box and Use >> File Dialog are set and saved according to Customize. This has been the >> behavior since 22.0.0. It works ok on 21.3. > > Jason just posted a patch on bug-gnu-emacs. If you can rebuild Emacs > from sources, could you please try that patch and see if it solves > your problem? > > Thanks Eli (and Jason). I'm afraid I could only accomplish a rebuild with the help of more handholding than anyone would probably care to offer. Is there a site that offers detailed step by step instructions on how to accomplish this? I have downloaded a bunch of mingw stuff but I don't even know how to unpack the tar.gz files. Ed