# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 980601757 0
# Node ID d1a5bb6d381119522bd4d1730569bd5453d046f8
# Parent  a3e5066d2077a67f034023f15be9f40a44d3ad8e
(Visiting): Document the file selection dialog popped by C-x C-f.

diff -r a3e5066d2077 -r d1a5bb6d3811 man/files.texi
--- a/man/files.texi	Sat Jan 27 13:17:37 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/files.texi	Sat Jan 27 13:22:37 2001 +0000
@@ -183,6 +183,13 @@
 defaulting and completion in the standard manner (@pxref{File Names}).
 While in the minibuffer, you can abort @kbd{C-x C-f} by typing @kbd{C-g}.
 
+@cindex file selection dialog
+  When Emacs is built with a suitable GUI toolkit, it pops up the
+standard File Selection dialog of that toolkit instead of prompting for
+the file name in the minibuffer.  On Unix and GNU/Linux platforms, Emacs
+does that when built with LessTif and Motif toolkits; on MS-Windows, the
+GUI version does that by default.
+
   Your confirmation that @kbd{C-x C-f} has completed successfully is the
 appearance of new text on the screen and a new buffer name in the mode
 line.  If the specified file does not exist and could not be created, or