Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     >> So what about changing dired -- that must be a trivial change.
>
>     Yes, but we must change read-file-name also so the information that this
>     is a directory open is passed down to x-file-dialog somehow.
>
>     >
>     > Would the following still work?
>     >
>     > C-x d
>     > ~/emacs/src/p*
>
>     As long as no file dialog is involved, it should work.
>
> Those two statements seem mutually contradictory.
> The first says that Dired would use a file dialog,
> and the second says that it won't.

We get file dialogs only for commands started with a mouse.  C-x d
will give the normal minibuffer dialog instead.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum