Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken

[Jan D.]

> > I don't know what is best, to have a new function that reads 
> > directories,
> > or to extend the MUST-MATCH parameter with some value that indicates
> > a directory read.
>
> What's wrong with read-directory-name?

Nothing, except dired does not use it, it uses read-file-name and the
information that a directory is wanted is in the predicate, so it is
not easy in the general case for read-file-name to figure out that
a directory is wanted (the caller may have written its own predicate).

        Jan D.