Re: Shorter filenames in open dialog?

Well I haven't had any luck getting this to behave how I would like, so an
illustration may be in order:

http://blueapples.org/files/nedit_motif_open_dialog.gif

This image shows what I see when I select the File > Open command.

Note that both the Directories box and the Files box contain full paths. The
first screenshot shows the open size for this particular directory.

The second and third boxes show a different set of directories.
If I double click a directory on the left in the second image, the
horizontal scroll of this box is left unchanged (as shown in the third
image) and I have to scroll to the right in a  tiny box to actually see the
directory's child directories.

To be honest I am not sure if this is the default Motif dialog or if it is
"the special nedit open dialog". I had thought it was the default Motif one
but perhaps I am wrong - I don't use Motif very much and haven't for a long
time. How would I go about switching to the default dialog if this is not
it?

IJR


On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Aaron W. Hsu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:19:16 -0400, Isaac Raway <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I realize that the Motif file section dialog for File > Open is meant to
> > be
> > replaced at some point... but is there a way to get it to behave more in
> > a
> > more sane fashion in the meantime? I've really been enjoying using nedit
> > so
> > far and this is the only thing that has been a pain, all this constant
> > horizontal scrolling is driving me a bit batty. ;)
>
> I am not sure what you mean by the scrolling and such. I think others have
> mentioned workarounds for getting relative paths. I usually disable the
> special NEdit Open Dialog and use the standard Motif one, which I can then
> customize suitably for my purposes using Xresources, though at the moment,
> with OpenMotif 2.X, I find there to be no need to adjust these settings.
>
> Then again, I like Motif's dialog, so... *shrug*
>
>        Aaron W. Hsu
>
>
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