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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 11138@debbugs.gnu.org, dpchiesa@hotmail.com
Subject: bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:37:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26FCD6C6B7684C2A932920E1949B2026@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fwcok4hw.fsf@gnu.org>

> > I see.  I don't have a true message-box implementation, but 
> > wouldn't it be possible to just use multiple menu lines for this?
> 
> Not if we reuse the normal menu-creation code, I would think.  But the
> truth is that I simply don't know enough about this to say something
> intelligent.  Again, if this is possible, patches are welcome.

It certainly would be possible (trivial) in Lisp: just split the string at each
\n and create a separate (non-selectable) menu item for each.

But this code is in C for some reason, so I'm afraid someone else will need to
come up with the requisite patch.






  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-31 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-31 14:53 bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message Dino Chiesa
2012-03-31 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2012-03-31 18:06   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 18:14     ` Drew Adams
2012-03-31 18:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 18:37         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-03-31 18:58           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 19:19             ` Drew Adams
2012-03-31 19:26               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 21:29                 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-01  3:00                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 19:10     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-31 19:19       ` Drew Adams
2012-03-31 21:36     ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-01 16:58       ` Eli Zaretskii

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