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From: | Robert I. Eachus |
Subject: | bug#8181: closed (Re: bug#8181: Patch to fix bug#8181: 23.2; Dired on Windows 7) |
Date: | Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:58:12 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 |
On 3/7/2011 4:19 PM, GNU bug Tracking System wrote:
Good and fast work by all. But I still have my original question. Why is the behavior different from Cx d which it lists as an equivalent? I can see that having access to a Windows dialog box can be useful for things like recently visited directories, so the ability to access the Microsoft dialog boxes is nice. I had assumed that Visit New File... gave the same result as C-x C-f, and Open File.., with no keyboard equivalent went through the the Windows menuing system. It wasn't until now that I found out they were the same. (I started in computing well before terminals with displays and windowing systems were common, and I have been using Emacs for over 30 years. So by the time I conclude I want to open a file or directory, I'm typing its name in the minibuffer. (Unless, apparently, I have a hot cup of tea in my left hand. ;-)Your bug report #8181: 23.2; Dired on Windows 7 which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.
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