Re: GTK file selector

[Jan D.]

Juri Linkov wrote:

> > > If there is some option that restores the old reasonable behavior in new
> > > GTK2 dialogs, Emacs could set such an option by default.
> > >      
> > The old one is still present in GTK, you can set x-use-old-gtk-file-dialog
> > in Emacs to enable it.
> >    
>
> Thanks.  I tried to set x-use-old-gtk-file-dialog to t, but even though it
> looks like the old GTK file selection dialog, it is completely unusable:
> its filename entry field is read-only and even C-l is not available to
> enter filenames.  It seems the old GTK file selection dialog is intentionally
> broken to force users to the new GTK2 file chooser.
>  

If you use it to open existing files it will be read only.  Use the 
"Visit New File" instead, it can actually be used to visit old files also.

   Jan D.