Re: GTK file selector

[Jérôme Marant]

Quoting Aidan Kehoe <address@hidden>:

>
>  Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí na Nollaig, scríobh JérÎme Marant:
>
>  > I usually prefer Emacs compiled with Athena widgets. Nonetheless,
>  > I decided to give the GTK version a try, again.
>  >
>  > I may be dumb but with the current GTK file selector, I did not find
>  > any way to view dotfiles and dotdirectories. So, I was unable to
>  > open my .emacs nor to enter my .emacs.d directory.
>  >
>  > Also, there is no textarea where I could enter a filename manually.
>
> If it’s GTK2, then you should be able to start typing a file name and have
> a
> text field appear. You can use this text field to access dot files.

It indeed opens a textarea but typing the dotfile does not seem to
make it being opened.

Someone just told me I have to right-click on the filelist to activate
hidden file displaying.

I'm ashamed I have to ask such simple questions but the previous file
selector was much more intuitive.

Thanks.

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Jérôme Marant