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Re: Emacs - "Save As" Dialog Window under MS Windows


From: Wilmar Igl
Subject: Re: Emacs - "Save As" Dialog Window under MS Windows
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 21:10:21 +0200
User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221)

Dear David,

after checking your suggestions I found out that the menu bar "save as" dialog does _save_ the file. It did not work in my case as my file name included asterisks "*", however, did not show any error message.

Therefore, the only thing that should be changed is the description of the button from "Open" to "Save" in the menu-driven "Save as..." dialog window.

Best regards,

Will

PS: Do you know whether sort of a package management system is under development for Emacs (e.g. based on EmacsWiki).
That would be marvellous!!!

David Vanderschel skrev:
Hi Wilmar,

I administer help-emacs-windows.  Your message is
subject to moderation since you do not subscribe to
the list.  This would appear to be a bug report.  The
appropriate list to which to send that is
bug-gnu-emacs which you can join here:
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs

It is not appropriate to address your message to RMS
himself.  There is a staff of folks who support GNU
software.  RMS himself has more important matters
to concern himself with than minor bug reports.
The graphic you attached is not readable.  In any
case, a PDF is not a suitable format for distributing
a screen shot.  PNG would be best for this (though GIF
is OK too).  However, in this case, the nature of the
'bug' is clear without the picture.

Though the dialogue calls itself an "Open File"
Dialog, are you sure that it is not being used simply
as a file name specification dialogue?  I.e., did you
verify that what it does is to actually _read_ the
specified file?  Or is the specified file what is used
for the output?  (Note that you can type in a new file
name in the Open File Dialogue.)

Most folks use the function write-file on C-x C-w
for a "save as" function.

I will delete your message from the list server. If you still think this is worth reporting as a bug, please
feel free to do so.  (Since Windows does offer a
"Save As ..." dialogue, I would agree that it could be regarded as a bug.)

Regards,
  David V.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilmar Igl" <wilmar.igl@gmx.de>
To: <rms@gnu.org>; <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:58 AM
Subject: Emacs - "Save As" Dialog Window under MS Windows


Dear Mr. Stallman,

please note that unter MS Windows if you choose "save as" from the Menu bar the opened "MS Window" dialog is actually the "Open File" Dialog window. This way the file can't be saved.

Please refer to the attached screenshot for further explanation.

Best regards,

Will



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