Dear Björn,

Thanks very much for this information.  That would be a wonderful
feature.  No more "editing" a PDF after a mouse-slip!

Mark

On Apr 11, 9:17 am, Björn Winckler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, April 11, 2011 at 14:36 , Mark McCullagh wrote:
>
> Hi, I was wondering if there's a way for the file-open dialog in> MacVim to 
> gray out inappropriate files, e.g. *.pdf files.
>
> > Thanks in advance... (I googled and searched for this but no luck yet)
>
> The dialog itself is handled by Cocoa and as far as I know there is no 
> general way to filter files in the GUI itself.
>
> Looking at the API there is a way to "set allowed file types" which may 
> result in "disallowed" file types in being grayed out, but I have to have a 
> look. Vim itself seems to use the variables g:browsefilter and b:browsefilter 
> to set which files to filter but currently MacVim ignores this.
>
> To conclude; no, there is no way to filter files at the moment but it looks 
> like it might be possible to implement this. I'll put it on my todo list.
>
> Björn

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