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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2014-07-12 12:25:29 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2014-07-12 12:25:29 +0300 |
| commit | 47f63aa79abed1da90fabd637529d5f8161f84fa (patch) | |
| tree | 9aae64b8c1eb38ea45daf7e482a07c6f28b21a26 /etc | |
| parent | a5a8e250d5fc17b3e4a7955f2c896f2b050b2960 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-47f63aa79abed1da90fabd637529d5f8161f84fa.tar.gz | |
Document the behavior of file selection dialogs on Windows 7 (bug #17950).
etc/PROBLEMS: Mention the problem from bug #17950.
src/w32fns.c (Fx_file_dialog): Mention in the doc string the
behavior on Windows 7 and later when the function is repeatedly
invoked with the same value of DIR.
src/xfns.c (Fx_file_dialog) [USE_MOTIF, USE_GTK]: Update the doc
string to match the one in w32fns.c.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 20 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index d30c03f1c20..06a0c4b5312 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2014-07-12 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> + + * PROBLEMS: Mention the problem from bug #17950. + 2014-07-04 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> * TODO: Remove items that were already done. Rearrange a few diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 1f9200febbf..cea2213a24e 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1961,6 +1961,26 @@ Another possibility is to rebuild Emacs with the -shared-libgcc switch, which will force Emacs to load libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll on startup, ahead of any optional DLLs loaded on-demand later in the session. +** File selection dialog opens in incorrect directories + +Invoking the file selection dialog on Windows 7 or later shows a +directory that is different from what was passed to `read-file-name' +or `x-file-dialog' via their arguments. + +This is due to a deliberate change in behavior of the file selection +dialogs introduced in Windows 7. It is explicitly described in the +MSDN documentation of the GetOpenFileName API used by Emacs to pop up +the file selection dialog. For the details, see + + http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646839%28v=vs.85%29.aspx + +The dialog shows the last directory in which the user selected a file +in a previous invocation of the dialog with the same initial +directory. + +You can reset this "memory" of that directory by invoking the file +selection dialog with a different initial directory. + ** PATH can contain unexpanded environment variables Old releases of TCC (version 9) and 4NT (up to version 8) do not correctly |