From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, alex@emacswiki.org
Subject: Re: y-or-n-p-with-timeout
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:14:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1CS5Px-000823-1e@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87is8ezlen.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> (message from Matthew Mundell on Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:51:12 +0000)
> Type-break mode with fixed-length periods between breaks could use
> such a function to prompt the user to take a break. That way if the
> user returns to the machine after an extended period away, then any
> prompting will, correctly, be gone.
>
> Would we want type-break mode to use a dialog box?
The same situation would then be a case for the dialog box to time
out. Using a dialog box would require an alternative for terminal
display.
We're failing to communicate. The question is whether this is
a real example of wanting to use a dialog box.
Do we really want type-break to use a dialog box?
Does type-break now use a dialog box?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-11 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-06 15:19 y-or-n-p-with-timeout Richard Stallman
2004-11-06 17:24 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Jan D.
2004-11-07 18:04 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Richard Stallman
2004-11-06 18:14 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Alex Schroeder
2004-11-08 14:49 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Stefan
2004-11-09 11:14 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Richard Stallman
2004-11-09 23:16 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Luc Teirlinck
2004-11-11 3:14 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Richard Stallman
2004-11-11 9:20 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Jan D.
2004-11-12 7:05 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Richard Stallman
2004-11-08 19:58 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Matthew Mundell
2004-11-09 21:29 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Richard Stallman
2004-11-09 22:51 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Matthew Mundell
2004-11-11 3:14 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-11-12 17:04 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Matthew Mundell
2004-11-13 16:37 ` y-or-n-p-with-timeout Richard Stallman
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