Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken

[Jan D.]

2004-10-09 kl. 19.14 skrev Stefan:

> > 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.

Basically Emacs will have to change so that commands from the menu bar 
and
tool bar call a new function that knows if this is a save or load.
We then remove the use of a dialog entirely from read-file-name.

This is the plan discussed last time this came up, I don't think it is
something we should do for this release:


Replace "Open File" with "Open old file" and "New buffer".
Make them and "Save", "Save As" and "Open directory" call another 
function than read-file-name that opens a dialog in the correct GTK 
mode (i.e. ACTION_SAVE, ACTION_OPEN or ACTION_SELECT_FOLDER).  Do not 
open a dialog
for read-file-name.

Loss of functionality is that "Open old file" can not open a directory 
and "Open directory" can not open a file.  Also, the "New buffer" just 
creates a buffer without a file, the file is specified later when 
saved.  This may
confuse old Emacs users a bit.

        Jan D.