From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20481: 24.5; Newlines in message-box output don't work on Windows Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 10:19:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83ioccsr2u.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430464824 29961 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2015 07:20:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 07:20:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20481@debbugs.gnu.org To: Adam Connor Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 01 09:20:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yo5F6-0007Wi-13 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 09:20:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yo5F5-0002eH-FO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 03:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yo5F2-0002cl-Ns for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 03:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yo5Ez-0004Vb-H7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 03:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48094) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yo5Ez-0004UF-Dl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 03:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Yo5Ey-0007wI-EI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 03:20:04 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 07:20:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20481 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20481-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20481.143046475530450 (code B ref 20481); Fri, 01 May 2015 07:20:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20481) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 May 2015 07:19:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58069 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Yo5EA-0007v2-KP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 03:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:49401) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Yo5E7-0007um-Gh for 20481@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 03:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NNN00900TDG1900@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 20481@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2015 10:19:05 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NNN008F4TNSYX50@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 May 2015 10:19:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:102316 Archived-At: > From: Adam Connor > 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.