Variable: use-file-dialog

use-file-dialog is a customizable variable defined in fns.c.

Value

t

Documentation

Non-nil means mouse commands use a file dialog to ask for files.

This applies to commands from menus and tool bar buttons even when they are initiated from the keyboard. If use-dialog-box is nil, that disables the use of a file dialog, regardless of the value of this variable.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 22.1.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 22.1.

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/fns.c
  DEFVAR_BOOL ("use-file-dialog", use_file_dialog,
    doc: /* Non-nil means mouse commands use a file dialog to ask for files.
This applies to commands from menus and tool bar buttons even when
they are initiated from the keyboard.  If `use-dialog-box' is nil,
that disables the use of a file dialog, regardless of the value of
this variable.  */);