From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp: Text-based file-chooser Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:23:31 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87r5cvuf12.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <87d3oenb6s.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294011718 30348 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2011 23:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:41:58 +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 Jan 03 00:41:54 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZXYg-0007hZ-0w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:41:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47092 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZXYf-0003LR-EH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:41:53 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!noris.net!news.n-ix.net!Quza.UK.peer!nntp.gblx.net!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1294010611 20663 85.183.18.158 (2 Jan 2011 23:23:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:23:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183871 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:78079 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > Richard Riley writes: > >> Tim X writes: >> >>> Larry Kohlman writes: >>> >>>> Does elisp offer any text-based file-selection dialogs besides dired and >>>> find-file? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> speedbar >> >> yeek! >> >> Also IDO mode comes with emacs now. >> >> ido-find-file >> > > Yes, unfortunately, emacs does come with ido - personally, I don't! Unfortunately? It's one of the best things to be added I think. I find it very, very useful. > Tried it and found it got in the way as often as it was helpful. Tweaked > and forced myself to use it for two months and then turned it off - best > thing I ever did. What kind of things got in the way? That said, there is ONE things that niggles me, sometimes when I type a file name it seems to go find it in another directory. but not always.... A bug I fancy but I cant pinpoint it. I couldnt do without the fuzzy matching for example. > > Personally, don't use speedbar either, but some like it and from the OPs > request, is different enough to dired and find-file such that it may > actually be of interest to them. Heh. The variety of opinions ;) To me, speedbar is really and truly horrible : poor keyboard navigation, dodgy focus, takes up too much screen real estate. Still, all to their own ;) cheers r.