From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: undo in loaddefs.el buffer Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:05:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200412211414.iBLEEZ903426@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200412211541.iBLFfBc03861@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87llbonyup.fsf@jurta.org> <200412260206.iBQ26wG17970@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <41CEE3B8.9090600@swipnet.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104171265 30165 80.91.229.6 (27 Dec 2004 18:14:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, yamaoka@jpl.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 19:14:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CizNq-0007S0-00 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:14:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CizYe-00023J-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:25:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CizWg-00014G-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:23:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CizWd-00011A-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:23:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CizWc-00010G-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:23:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CizLE-0001v7-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:11:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CizFk-0006KS-U7; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:05:56 -0500 Original-To: "Jan D." In-reply-to: <41CEE3B8.9090600@swipnet.se> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31470 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31470 This way of popping down the dialog has been replaced by popping down by pressing ESC, which is more in line with what other applications and toolkits use. I think it would be an improvement if most characters did not exit the dialog, only ESC and C-g. Can you implement this in general? Perhaps ESC should cause a quit rather than returning nil. Of course, C-g definitely ought to quit. Should ESC exit a menu too? It seems to me that would be a coherent interface. Is that easy to do? Any key pressed when the focus is on the Emacs frame and not the dialog pops down the Lucid and Lesstif/Motif dialog, to be compatible with 21.3. I don't think we need to be backwards-compatible in that regard. If only-ESC-exits is a better policy, let's switch to that in all cases if we can.