From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: steventamm@mac.com, "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,
mmoll@rice.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:25:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5hdp2z5g6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CGfPu-0002oW-F8@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:15:22 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Basically Emacs will have to change so that commands from the menu bar
> and
> tool bar call a new function that knows if this is a save or load.
> We then remove the use of a dialog entirely from read-file-name.
>
> We could define two new functions, read-input-file-name
> and read-output-file-name. Would this do the job?
>
> Replace "Open File" with "Open old file" and "New buffer".
>
> It is not a good idea to encourage users to create a buffer to edit a
> new file without specifying the file name.
Yes. The file name tells Emacs which mode to use, and where to place
autosave files.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-10 20:25 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.
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 [this message]
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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