Re: Comparing 2 (or 3) directories: problems with file selector dialog (Carbon port)

[David Reitter]

On 13 Jun 2006, at 14:36, Juri Linkov wrote:

> > This is from a user. He selects "Compare directories" by mouse  
> > (in  the
> > ediff menu), which causes a file selection dialog to appear in   
> > the Carbon
> > port (since the last input was a non-keyboard event).
> > Unfortunately, it looks like directory selection is not enabled for
> > this dialog.
> >
> > I verified this with a recent version.
>
> Is this Mac-specific?  I can't reproduce this on GNU/Linux with GTK.
> Dired-compare-directories uses read-directory-name, so perhaps
> read-directory-name doesn't work on Mac.

read-directory-name works as intended.
Michael Kifer send a few e-mails and I thought he would deal with it.

This is about ediff-directories, not dired-copmare-directories.
The latter works fine, the former uses `ediff-read-file-name'.

- D