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David Masterson  <David.Masterson@synopsys.com> wrote:
 > >>>>> Kyle Jones writes:
 > 
 > > The Mac OS X Finder has a darn good file browsing interface.
 > > I'm talking about the left-to-right sliding hierarchical
 > > view.  Question to anyone: is there something like this
 > > available in XEmacs or Emacs?  If there isn't, I'm going to
 > > write one for use in VM.
 > 
 > Do you mean the way that (X)Emacs asks for the name of a file
 > when window-system is not nil?  Under MS-Windows, (X)Emacs
 > uses the Windows "Open File" interface now which is what most
 > people expect.  My preference would be to say that, whatever
 > you do for this, it shouldn't be a VM only thing.

I wasn't thinking about Windows at all.  The old way XEmacs
fetched filenames under a GUI was klunky enough that I disabled
it under VM.  So the Windows file browser interface probably
isn't being used with VM under Windows right now.

 > On the other hand, if you mean a file browser a la Windows
 > Explorer, then I've always been partial to Dired...  ;-)

What VM has now is something I cooked up years ago because there
wasn't anything else to use.  Reproducing the Aqua Finder using
XEmacs' widgets won't be very pretty, but I think it can be
functional enough for VM's purposes.  VM just needs some way to
traverse directories and select folders or files.