From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:34:28 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <878vwom10b.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <874o7e23i8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lj0ptv9y.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zkp5qnrd.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vczsv8u3.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299706816 573 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2011 21:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 21:40:16 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 22:40:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxR75-0003bN-Rx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:40:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxR75-0003q2-9g for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:40:11 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net NJWnNH5OnitESxnFdz7Fsv/Wa+TCMMQBry0MnZQtJKuf914Hbab+vqtMHTKoYDuRops/WsCTkrJMTOlgM66BDA== Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 21:34:33 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="rGaJa7FRYT9mz7M2unKHyhZ8If1e4mEdbNUe1w2JvAIwzUoH9XRAIvfci2HawMD35uxDHQlVNKbAKSxRyf5u0FFVoD6l9MzH7lUQ+qX77dnKU0IK8DnLDd3XdHmm6EN9"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:6DAqWgEdu8GrHLm7EPPQdZfI/Ms= sha1:YQscdvWL1/chzGcLaFpclRiL1T4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.bug:72129 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:44824 Archived-At: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:34:06 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: SM> Ted wrote: >> If you want me to modify `y-or-n-p' to use `read-char-choice' let me >> know and I'll submit a patch. SM> That would be a good change, yes, please. I'll propose on emacs-devel. >> Try (dropdown-list '("choose one: y" "............n" "............N")) >> since that's how it will look with the new >> `auth-source-char-read-choice' function. SM> Hmm... I'm not sure it's an improvement over the simple SM> "y/n/N/e/?" prompt. For completions and other cases where the total SM> text is too long to fit on a single line, such a dropdown-list can make SM> sense, but for this particular case it just reminds of me people using SM> tons of different typefaces in Word document. OK, I've removed the dropdown-list stuff. Can you close this bug or let me know what else is needed? Thanks Ted