From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Canceling dialogues Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:53:05 +0200 Message-ID: <44CE5FA1.1010101@student.lu.se> References: <44CE4007.6020904@student.lu.se> <38295.128.165.123.18.1154374997.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154375639 12799 80.91.229.2 (31 Jul 2006 19:53:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 31 21:53:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7dpI-0002Wu-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:53:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7dpH-0002Qm-Fl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7dp9-0002QW-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7dp7-0002QK-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:53:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7dp7-0002QH-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:53:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G7drq-0003f1-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:55:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 44A1364D006B4D87; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:53:07 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: herring@lanl.gov In-Reply-To: <38295.128.165.123.18.1154374997.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57868 Archived-At: Stuart D. Herring wrote: > What should y-or-n-p return if the user chooses this alternative? Should > it signal 'quit (like C-g would)? What if `inhibit-quit' is t? The idea > of an escape route for the user is not a bad one, but I wonder if the > notion of "cancelling" is insufficiently generalizable to apply to just > any use of `y-or-n-p'. Is there a specific behavior that you would want > to associate with this? > I want the Cancel alternative to work just like C-g works in the command line alternative.