Re: Bad file dialog on W32 popped up by a click on C source

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> "C-h f some-function RET" shows "C source file" for functions defined
> in C.  If you click on the xref, and if the source files are not in
> the place where Emacs expects to find them (e.g., if you removed the
> source tree), Emacs pops up a file dialog asking you to find the
> directory of the source file.

I just get "find-function-C-source: The C source file w32fns.c is not
available" 

>   . it doesn't say what directory it is looking for and doesn't show
>     me the name of the file, so I need to guess that it wants the src
>     directory

Seems like a problem with the prompt.

>   . if I select the src directory where the file lives and click Open,
>     it errors out saying "Current Directory -- file not found"

An Emacs error in the echo area, or a system error in a dialog?
If the latter then it is caused by the file-must-exist flag being set,
which does not work for directories.