Get rid of new popup box from reftex - how?

Get rid of new popup box from reftex - how?

[Colin Baxter]

I notice that emacs-29.0.5 presents me with a popup confirmation dialog
box whenever I use reftex to save a local bibtex file. How can I get
back to receiving the confirmation message in the emacs' echo buffer?
This used to be the procedure up to and including emacs-28.1. Why the
change? For me, popups are a nuisance since they often involve having to
use the mouse and can get lost in full-screen emacs.

Thanks.

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter.

Re: Get rid of new popup box from reftex - how?

[Gregory Heytings]

>
> I notice that emacs-29.0.5 presents me with a popup confirmation dialog 
> box whenever I use reftex to save a local bibtex file. How can I get 
> back to receiving the confirmation message in the emacs' echo buffer? 
> This used to be the procedure up to and including emacs-28.1. Why the 
> change? For me, popups are a nuisance since they often involve having to 
> use the mouse and can get lost in full-screen emacs.
>

Do you have (setq use-dialog-box nil)?

Re: Get rid of new popup box from reftex - how?

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

    >> 
    >> I notice that emacs-29.0.5 presents me with a popup confirmation
    >> dialog box whenever I use reftex to save a local bibtex file. How
    >> can I get back to receiving the confirmation message in the
    >> emacs' echo buffer? This used to be the procedure up to and
    >> including emacs-28.1. Why the change? For me, popups are a
    >> nuisance since they often involve having to use the mouse and can
    >> get lost in full-screen emacs.
    >> 

    > Do you have (setq use-dialog-box nil)?

No. That works - thanks - but I am curious. I've had the use-dialog-box
set to t in the past but reftex on emacs-28.1 did not present me with a
popup box. It only happens in emacs-29.0.5. I can't find anything
relevant in the git logs so I don't know when or if the popup behaviour
changed in reftex.

Thanks again

Best wishes.

Re: Get rid of new popup box from reftex - how?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 20:38:11 +0100
> 
> >>>>> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
> 
>     > Do you have (setq use-dialog-box nil)?
> 
> No. That works - thanks - but I am curious. I've had the use-dialog-box
> set to t in the past but reftex on emacs-28.1 did not present me with a
> popup box. It only happens in emacs-29.0.5. I can't find anything
> relevant in the git logs so I don't know when or if the popup behaviour
> changed in reftex.

use-dialog-box should be in effect only for commands that were invoked
by a mouse click or from the menus (the menu bar or popup menus).  If
this is not what happened, there's likely a bug in Emacs 29, and you
should report it (and preferably also try to investigate why this
happened).

Re: Get rid of new popup box from reftex - how?

[Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Colin Baxter [2022-07-30 18:50:21] wrote:
> I notice that emacs-29.0.5 presents me with a popup confirmation dialog
> box whenever I use reftex to save a local bibtex file. How can I get
> back to receiving the confirmation message in the emacs' echo buffer?

When you see a regression while using the `master` branch from Emacs,
please `M-x report-emacs-bug`.


        Stefan

Re: Get rid of new popup box from reftex - how?

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

>> I notice that emacs-29.0.5 presents me with a popup
>> confirmation dialog box whenever I use reftex to save
>> a local bibtex file. How can I get back to receiving the
>> confirmation message in the emacs' echo buffer?
>
> When you see a regression while using the `master` branch
> from Emacs, please `M-x report-emacs-bug`.

I sense something interesting here, what's a regression in
this sense?

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Re: Get rid of new popup box from reftex - how?

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

    > Colin Baxter [2022-07-30 18:50:21] wrote:
    >> I notice that emacs-29.0.5 presents me with a popup confirmation
    >> dialog box whenever I use reftex to save a local bibtex file. How
    >> can I get back to receiving the confirmation message in the
    >> emacs' echo buffer?

    > When you see a regression while using the `master` branch from
    > Emacs, please `M-x report-emacs-bug`.

Will do. However, I'm not yet sure that what I saw wasn't a result of an
corrupt setup.

Best wishes,

Re: Get rid of new popup box from reftex - how?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 06:00:17 +0100
> 
> >>>>> Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>     > When you see a regression while using the `master` branch from
>     > Emacs, please `M-x report-emacs-bug`.
> 
> Will do. However, I'm not yet sure that what I saw wasn't a result of an
> corrupt setup.

Don't worry about that, if it turns out it's the latter, we won't hold
a grudge against you.