Re: [h-e-w] RE: Traditional find-file vs. file open dialog?

[Chris Lott]

Geert Ribbers <address@hidden> spake thusly:

> Hi.
>
> The default behavior of emacs 21 is to get windows-file-dialogs when
> you use the mouse and minibuffer-dialogs when you use the keyboard.
> But you can change that with the custom-variable use-dialog-box:
>
> "use-dialog-box's value is t
>
> Documentation:
> *Non-nil means mouse commands use dialog boxes to ask questions.
> This applies to y-or-n and yes-or-no questions asked by commands
> invoked by mouse clicks and mouse menu items.
>
> You can customize this variable."

This seems to only effect questions (y/n options) and also seems to have no
effect when I use it in emacs. According to the docs, it appears that if
Emacs has a GU?I toolkit, then the open file dialog should be invoked with
find-file, but that doesn't appear to be the case on Windows.

c
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Chris Lott