Re: [PATCH] Keep network security info buffers after use

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

On 19 Dec 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
>> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:57:04 -0600
>> 
>> How about an option that allows `C-x o' to escape from the 
>> modal 
>> dialog of `read-multiple-choice'?
>
>That dialog was AFAIU intentionally designed not to allow any 
>such
>escapes.
>
>Once again: let's fix the particular problem you had, and that 
>problem
>was not with read-multiple-choice.

Fixing (i.e., reducing) the strictness of Emacs's 
`read-multiple-choice' modal dialog would be worth the effort for 
me.  However, you don't agree that the current strictness is a 
problem.

Meanwhile, implementing a mechanism (re)display the cert info from 
`nsm-query-user' is not worth the effort for me (maybe someone 
else might find it worth doing).  It's already quite rare that 
users are even presented with cert info; it would be even more 
rare that a user who is presented with that info then takes the 
steps needed to discover that there's a way to redisplay the cert 
info (heck, very few users even check certs in the first place -- 
most people just hit "a"ccept at the prompt and continue).  The 
ratio of effort to user's-lives-improved is not high enough to 
cross the implementation threshold for me here.

Thanks for talking through the possibilities.  We disagree about 
modal dialog behavior, but being maintainer means making decisions 
sometimes, and it's helpful that you've made one here.

Best regards,
-Karl