Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     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.
>
> We could define two new functions, read-input-file-name
> and read-output-file-name.  Would this do the job?
>
>     Replace "Open File" with "Open old file" and "New buffer".
>
> It is not a good idea to encourage users to create a buffer to edit a
> new file without specifying the file name.

Yes.  The file name tells Emacs which mode to use, and where to place
autosave files.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum