From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52877: [External] : Re: bug#52877: 27.2; Let `use-dialog-box' apply to more than just yes/no questions Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 19:34:33 +0200 Message-ID: <834k62w9jq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r199wc44.fsf@gnus.org> <83bl0cysh1.fsf@gnu.org> <83o84awmu7.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20229"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 52877@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 17 18:36:14 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n9VvS-00057o-Gn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 18:36:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37314 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n9VvR-0006A4-E2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:36:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n9VuI-0005Zi-LQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:54940) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n9VuI-0002tJ-Bu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n9VuI-0000TJ-6b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:35:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:35:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 52877 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 52877-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B52877.16424408971800 (code B ref 52877); Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 52877) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Jan 2022 17:34:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47843 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n9VuD-0000Sy-H7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:34:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46996) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n9Vu9-0000Se-C4 for 52877@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:34:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=43540 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n9Vtz-0002pW-Nm; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:34:47 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=zgmoDK/tAs7iN4/gcbsPLuXaljxngtCS9AWpIe+MN0U=; b=A4IfPIHy59Wb vOramSk2t95BxUXAanAINxW741wNfsC/0s+J5TDh9KE0CHjG6+2R9CtDzJSX5EFs4JzyHhr6tlOYT L8S5FaUNF7gUzPf25bBlFpzLMVkfltn/DjaGHdx3AsVaKYpUQ5+LjUhHQ0esurbkNbzrqdEmvcQRe joizXxBWrp89gNdEcERSzLrFCCoT5rcA9DVzghS2yMOIOw+kCDdzWOSJ1QjBq6Ru0V2kVSWABA2jL rlKEPSoXjJYLWuqIWc/1Nke9rRiI/RSWwfrR90Yt+wQ38i2n8cXUY0VvfxjDLX84KOpTimG2FHiNi TNZvNJUTIRPBz7rjcKaqWg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4142 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n9Vtz-0008Tm-Qp; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:34:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:18:31 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:224463 Archived-At: > From: Drew Adams > CC: "larsi@gnus.org" , > "52877@debbugs.gnu.org" > <52877@debbugs.gnu.org> > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:18:31 +0000 > > > We already do that. IMNSHO, it doesn't make sense > > in this particular case. > > "We already do that." Really? Please point to > examples of commands that use `use-dialog-box' > and prompt for input other than yes-no. You can find them yourself by searching the Emacs source tree. > > It is wrong to use (x-list-fonts "*" ...) to produce the collection > > of fonts suitable for Emacs. > > "Wrong", meaning what, exactly? I don't see > how it's wrong in the sense of not being able > to produce a collection of fonts suitable for > Emacs - it can certainly do that. Try looking at the list it returns some day, but look really close (it's a large list). > Perhaps you mean that it won't necessarily > produce a collection that includes _all_ such > fonts? No, I mean many fonts it produces are unusable in Emacs. > Such qualification doesn't at all make the > command useless. I've used this for years, > to provide a set of font completion candidates: So you used it. It only proves that on your systems, with the fonts you have, and with the way you used the results it somehow worked. Or maybe you just happily forgot when it didn't. It doesn't change the facts: that list includes many unsuitable fonts. Please believe me, and please stop arguing.