From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:22:37 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Visiting): Document the file selection dialog popped by C-x C-f. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.96~18 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a43a93c38359fc24fda9b113fda839f91d9327a;p=emacs.git (Visiting): Document the file selection dialog popped by C-x C-f. --- diff --git a/man/files.texi b/man/files.texi index dfd16624c05..0877f3683fd 100644 --- a/man/files.texi +++ b/man/files.texi @@ -183,6 +183,13 @@ the command with the name of the file you wish to visit, terminated by a 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