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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change to `use-dialog-box-p'
Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 08:47:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pm6u1pex.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h6s7rxcz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 20 May 2023 15:38:52 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> On what OS?

X, with both Motif and no toolkit (where the XMenu library is used for
dialog boxes.)

> Anyway, I see no reason to change the current behavior due to this
> scenario and similar ones.  Emacs didn't see any mouse-related input,
> so it has no reason to prefer GUI dialogs.  We will surprise and annoy
> users if we do.

But the existing behavior has existed for a very long time, and its
removal is now surprising me, and probably others as well.  I'd hate to
need to advise use-dialog-box-p...



  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-21  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87o7mf3em6.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2023-05-20  2:45 ` Change to `use-dialog-box-p' Po Lu
2023-05-20  5:56   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-20  6:29     ` Po Lu
2023-05-20  8:14       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-20  8:32         ` Po Lu
2023-05-20  9:41           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-20 11:17             ` Po Lu
2023-05-20 12:38               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-21  0:47                 ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-05-21  5:50                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-21  6:41                     ` Po Lu
2023-05-21  7:40                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-22  5:33 Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez
2023-05-22  9:27 ` Po Lu
2023-05-22 10:17   ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2023-05-22 11:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-05-23  1:39 Samuel Wales
2023-05-23 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii

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