On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:18:12AM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > Actually, while having a look through gnome bugzilla and preparing to > file a bug against this (it seems to be a unique example worth some > thought) I noticed that what is happening here is actually correct. > > By this I mean that pressing: > > <Ctrl-L> "/usr/bin/emacs" <Enter> > > should open the "Open Location" dialog, locate the file '/usr/bin/emacs' > and then close the dialog. This isn't "correct" in any sane sense of the word. Having to hit a secret key combo to enter a path name is ridiculous, and having that be a second dialog is a serious regression. [...] > I'm assuming that the problem is that pressing > > <Ctrl-L> "/usr/bin/emacs" <Enter> <Enter> > > isn't as responsive as it might be. The problem is that one reason one might want to type rather than browse is that it's actually much, much faster -- but now, there's extraneous keystrokes required for no good reason. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.