> From: Juergen Fenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:59:37 +0200 > > >> - As opposed to v21.3 the Windows explorer dialogue does not appear in > >> 22.1 when selecting File|open; you have to input the file name in > >> minibuffer or use the speedbar (which I don't want to use for it is > >> a rather crude interface indeed). I understand that I am not the > >> only one missing the Windows dialogue here. Is there a solution to > >> this? > > > > This works as expected on Windows 2K and XP. If you can debug this > > and tell us what goes wrong, we will be happy to fix it. None of the > > maintainers of the Windows port of Emacs use or have good access to > > Windows 9x, so it's not a surprise there are bugs there. > > The latter was my guess, too. However, I suggest you add a notice to > the Windows readme file to make clear that Windows 9x is still > supported, but not as well tested as the more recent flavours of > Windows. > > I have sent a bug report on this point. > > If there is more I can do to help you fix this would you please let me > know. I would like to help you sort these problems out.
Best you could do would be to step with a debugger into the code that pops the file selector dialog and see what happens there. Can you do that? > >> - The all new drag and drop feature does not work at all. > > > > Could you please describe in detail what happens? (assuming something > > happens at all) > > 1. I select some text. > 2. This piece of text is marked in yellow as selected. > 3. I place the cursor above the selected text and press the left mouse > button. > 4. I try to drag this text to a different part of the buffer. > 5. More text I hover over when dragging is selected in yellow. There > is no dragging. There is not dropping either when I release the > left mouse button. This doesn't work for me, either. Is it supposed to work on Emacs? I didn't think it did. > >> Or could it be that something from my .emacs still refers to the > >> parallel installation of v21.3, triggering these effects? > > > > You could try running "emacs -Q" for a while to test this > > possibility. > > Well, this is hard as I depend on external settings for running AUCTeX > and Gnus... without these there is not much useful I can do with > Emacs... ;-) You could start with "emacs -Q", and then evaluate only the relevant portions of your .emacs one by one.
