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Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Develop
From: |
David Masterson |
Subject: |
Re: Design Suggestion 2: Dired In The Drop Down Menus (Re: Emacs Developers: Make a GREAT editor Even Better |
Date: |
24 Sep 2001 09:01:09 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> dmaster@synopsys.com (David Masterson) writes:
>>>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
>>> dmaster@synopsys.com (David Masterson) writes:
>>>>>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier
>>>>>>>>> <monnier+comp.emacs/news/@RUM.cs.yale.edu> writes:
>>>>>>>>> "Steve" == Steve <stevesusenet@yahoo.com> writes:
>>>>> File | Open should bring up Dired.
>> Oh. You mean that "File|Open" asks for the name of the file which
>> you have to enter via the keyboard? Well, that could be changed to
>> have it find-file the current directory from which you could then
>> mouse click to the file you want.
> Bingo. This was the original suggestion.
I still think it would be good if a mouse click in the minibuffer
area could be bound to (newline). Find-file and dired both ask for a
file/dir name in the minibuffer and provide a default of the current
directory. All that's needed is a newline to bring up a dired
buffer.
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David Masterson dmaster AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA