Re: elisp: Text-based file-chooser

[Larry Kohlman]

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:13:10 +0100, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

> rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Jan 3, 2:34 am, Larry Kohlman <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>> Does elisp offer any text-based file-selection dialogs besides dired
>>> and find-file?
> 
> Have you tried anything-find-files?

Just now, but no luck.

What I'm trying to do here is replace the GUI file selector with a more
general (and mouseless) text-mode hierarchical file-selector that I can
use both in a GUI and at a text-only console. My lisp code often uses
the GUI file selector to select files that I want to process in other
ways besides editing, so I need its replacement to only return the
filename and let me decide for myself what action to take.