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Subject: |
"open new file" icon and menu item don't work as advertised |
Date: |
Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:28:30 -0700 (PDT) |
From: <bvilf@yahoo.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; "open new file" icon and menu item don't work as advertised
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Clicking on "File" --> "Visit new file" or on leftmost tool bar icon and entering a nonexisting file name results in "File not found" error message.
Regards,
Bostjan
In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2009-07-30 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC:
nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: ENU
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: cp1250
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Fundamental
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <switch-frame> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<tool-bar> <kill-buffer> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <tool-bar> <one-window> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<file> <new-file> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <tool-bar> <open-file> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<tool-bar> <help>
Recent messages:
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Subject: |
Re: bug#3969: 23.0.96; Cannot use File > Visit New File on MS Windows |
Date: |
Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:13:11 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) |
Drew Adams wrote:
emacs -Q
Choose menu item File > Visit New File
You get the Windows `Find file:' dialog box. Enter the name of a new
file, e.g. `xxxx.txt', in field `File name:' and click button
`Open'. You get this error dialog box:
Find file:
xxxx.txt
File not found.
Please verify the correct file name was given
[OK]
The bug was caused by the change that introduced confirmation for
partial completions in the minibuffer - now the MUSTMATCH arg to
read-file-name is not simply nil or non-nil, it can have other special
values too, which mean confirm rather than prevent entry of non-existent
files.
But none of the file dialogs were updated for these special values, so
x-file-dialog is still treating any non-nil value as "require an
existing file". The problem these special values try to prevent does
not really apply to file dialogs, so I have checked in a change that
treats them as nil when calling x-file-dialog.
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