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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2014-07-12 12:25:29 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2014-07-12 12:25:29 +0300
commit47f63aa79abed1da90fabd637529d5f8161f84fa (patch)
tree9aae64b8c1eb38ea45daf7e482a07c6f28b21a26 /src/w32fns.c
parenta5a8e250d5fc17b3e4a7955f2c896f2b050b2960 (diff)
downloademacs-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.
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diff --git a/src/w32fns.c b/src/w32fns.c
index 638c617df99..1c73cda469a 100644
--- a/src/w32fns.c
+++ b/src/w32fns.c
@@ -6436,7 +6436,11 @@ or directory must exist.
This function is only defined on NS, MS Windows, and X Windows with the
Motif or Gtk toolkits. With the Motif toolkit, ONLY-DIR-P is ignored.
-Otherwise, if ONLY-DIR-P is non-nil, the user can only select directories. */)
+Otherwise, if ONLY-DIR-P is non-nil, the user can only select directories.
+On Windows 7 and later, the file selection dialog "remembers" the last
+directory where the user selected a file, and will open that directory
+instead of DIR on subsequent invocations of this function with the same
+value of DIR as in previous invocations; this is standard Windows behavior. */)
(Lisp_Object prompt, Lisp_Object dir, Lisp_Object default_filename, Lisp_Object mustmatch, Lisp_Object only_dir_p)
{
/* Filter index: 1: All Files, 2: Directories only */