Re: [h-e-w] strange file dialogs

[Jason Rumney]

Michael W Daniels <address@hidden> writes:

> This is under Emacs 21 and WinXP.
> 
> I use dired and angeftp to manage files on a remote site. For the
> first time under Emacs 21, I tried to create a directory on the remote
> site (using the Immediate menu) and the normal WinXP file selection
> dialog came up. This seems to be a bug, since I wasn't trying to do
> anything with my local hierachy. I tried typing in the name of the
> directory I wanted to create and clicked OK; the dialog closed but
> nothing else happened.

I didn't consider ange-ftp. I guess it is also an issue for the Motif
file dialog, unless that handles ftp somehow.

> Is there a known workaround for this?

The variable use-dialog-box should do the trick.

-- 
Jason Rumney