Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken

[David Kastrup]

Stefan <address@hidden> writes:

>> The problem is that there isn't a good way to determine if it should be an
>> open or a save dialog, and unlike on W32 or X, you need to pick "ChooseFile"
>> or "PutFile".  The comment I have in the code is;
>
> It seems the Gtk support has the same problem.
> Hopefully the two can share the code that implements their solution,
> whatever that one is.

I think it is obvious that the caller has to specify what it is
looking for.  Where the call comes from an interactive spec, a good
clue is whether the spec will allow non-existing files.

But apart from that, I am afraid there is no way around actually
having different functions (or arguments) for different outcomes.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum