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From: | Robert I. Eachus |
Subject: | bug#8181: 23.2; Dired on Windows 7 |
Date: | Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:40:34 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 |
On 3/5/2011 7:08 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote:
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Robert I. Eachus<rieachus@comcast.net> wrote:Choosing Open Directory from the File menu opens a standard (Windows 7) window that allows you to walk the directory tree, but there is no way to open a directory in dired mode that I can find. Cx d on the other hand opens an emacs buffer in dired mode. (Normal behavior)See `use-file-dialog'
Thanks for the quick answer, but I think you may be missing the point. First the File menu choice Open Directory, says that the keyboard equivalent is C-x d. But the two are completely different in behavior. Second, if you do use the menu option, there is no way to select a directory, even though you can navigate through them.
I ran into this by accident, browsing through a large C source library. I used Cx d nine times (or a dozen) before I went to use the menu since I had a cup in my left hand. I then wanted to see if I would get a dired buffer when I selected a directory, but instead I found that there is either no way to select a directory, or the choice gets silently lost.
It is not a big deal for me. Even if I am drinking something hot, I can type Cx d with my right hand. If nothing gets done I may submit a fix sometime when I am not in the process of digesting the source of a different application.
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