Adjusting NEdit's Open File Dialog (was Re: Future of NEdit?)

[Thomas Orgis]

Am Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:58:01 -0600
schrieb Aaron Hsu <arcfide at mac.com>: 

> On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Adam M wrote:
> 
> > 3) You can't open a file by typing its location; you always have to
> > navigate to it
> 
> Now this did bother me as well, until I learned that you could enable  
> the "Standard Motif" dialog, which allows you to enter the path to a  
> file name to open.

You know, I also don't particulary like that open file dialog.
It's not as dumb as GTK1 dialog and not as  f***ed up as GTK2, but also
not anything near useful as the KDE open dialog (I don't say nedit
should be a KDE app, just that their file open dialog does _not_ make
me wanting to hit the wall and scream for a simple text line with shell
tab completion).

Well, the funny thing about that open dialog is: You do not need it!
I wouldn't really notice if the open dialog would be dropped, because
nedit has that wonderful server/client thing.
I always open files in my shell via ncl (or nc, or neditc ...), from my
current working directory, with shell tab completion for paths, with
wildcards... in a loop, even!

So that just as a note about why the beauty or usefulness of that dialog
doesn't have to matter on a UNIX-like system with proper shell;-)


Alrighty then,

Thomas.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.nedit.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20071128/657884e4/signature.bin