Re: GTK file selector

[Jérôme Marant]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 14 2005, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>
>> I may be dumb but with the current GTK file selector, 
>
> [ See http://thread.gmane.org/439E24E2.1070201%40gmx.net for a related
>   discussion ]

Yes, I think this is a very good illustration of what's being
discussed.

>> I did not find any way to view dotfiles and dotdirectories. So, I
>> was unable to open my .emacs nor to enter my .emacs.d directory.
>
> mouse-3 in the file list area (or however it's called), opens a "Show
> hidden files" checkbox.

Thanks.

>> Also, there is no textarea where I could enter a filename manually.
>
> Ctrl-l

Ah. I'll have to read docs in order to use GTK dialogs now ;-P

>> Is there something to configure I missed?
>
> ,----[ <f1> v use-file-dialog RET ]
> | use-file-dialog is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> | Its value is nil
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | *Non-nil means mouse commands use a file dialog to ask for files.
> | This applies to commands from menus and tool bar buttons.  The value
> | of `use-dialog-box' takes precedence over this variable, so a file
> | dialog is only used if both `use-dialog-box' and this variable are
> | non-nil.
> `----

I think I can switch back to C-x C-f ;-)

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Jérôme Marant