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changeset 35647:d1a5bb6d3811
(Visiting): Document the file selection dialog popped by C-x C-f.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:22:37 +0000 |
| parents | a3e5066d2077 |
| children | fd06a4e20d87 |
| files | man/files.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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