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Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: find-file dialog in Carbon Emacs is broken
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:25:13 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Basically Emacs will have to change so that commands from the menu bar 
>     and
>     tool bar call a new function that knows if this is a save or load.
>     We then remove the use of a dialog entirely from read-file-name.
>
> We could define two new functions, read-input-file-name
> and read-output-file-name.  Would this do the job?
>
>     Replace "Open File" with "Open old file" and "New buffer".
>
> It is not a good idea to encourage users to create a buffer to edit a
> new file without specifying the file name.

Yes.  The file name tells Emacs which mode to use, and where to place
autosave files.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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