From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Adam Connor <adamc55@gmail.com>
Cc: 20481@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20481: 24.5; Newlines in message-box output don't work on Windows
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 10:19:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ioccsr2u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC_vAoFYY7d7Ro3QPsgkQHzDzytPxEvg2Yqy08symS9-jPDbTw@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Adam Connor <adamc55@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:18:13 -0500
>
> If I display a message using message-box, newlines seem to be ignored.
> For example
> (message-box "secret\nmessage")
>
> will show the message "secretmessage". I have also tried \r\n with the
> same result.
>
> Not a huge problem but annoying...
Emacs on Windows doesn't really support message boxes (a.k.a. "dialog
boxes"), except for simple Yes/No questions popped up by yes-or-no-p.
For other messages, such as this one, Emacs on Windows emulates dialog
boxes by menus, and in a menu an item cannot contain a newline.
In this case, we faithfully pass the original string with a newline to
the MS-Windows menu API, and I believe it is dropped by Windows when
it displays the menu.
IOW, this is a missing feature: dialog boxes are not fully supported
on MS-Windows.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-01 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-01 3:18 bug#20481: 24.5; Newlines in message-box output don't work on Windows Adam Connor
2015-05-01 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <CAC_vAoGvLFr--qNihU+MDpyZPhZEysz02hCOOWVE4otubmRJWg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-02 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-19 16:13 ` bug#20481: 24.5; , " Cecilio Pardo
2024-08-19 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-19 19:20 ` Cecilio Pardo
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