From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Canceling dialogues Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:10:25 +0200 Message-ID: <44D041D1.6060504@student.lu.se> References: <44CE4007.6020904@student.lu.se> <44CEF719.3050703@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154499069 4820 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2006 06:11:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 06:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 02 08:11:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G89wY-0006MT-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:10:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G89wX-0004NU-L5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:10:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G89wD-0004HF-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G89wB-0004Fk-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G89wB-0004Fb-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:10:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G89z8-0001Nr-3I; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 44A1364D006FBB42; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 08:10:26 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57986 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I've now checked on GNU/Linux, and the dialogs behave there in exactly > the same manner: even if you click the "X" button in the upper-right > corner of the dialog, to close the dialog, the command continues; you > need to type some character to stop it. > Thanks for checking. However I think Emacs behaviour here is a bug. I believe most (at least most new) users will expect the command to be canceled. (Compare for example the guidelines Mathias mentioned.) It looks safe to me to fix this before the release. I mean I find it hard to believe that it could interfere with something (except some users expecting the old behaviour of course).