From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 11138@debbugs.gnu.org, dpchiesa@hotmail.com
Subject: bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:06:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83iphkk5lo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6A87BDCA21CE468C8C567E4F12977F82@us.oracle.com>
severity 11138 wishlist
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> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:26:50 -0700
>
> > (message-box (concat "First line in a long-ish message.\n"
> > "This is line number 2 in the message."))
> >
> > The message gets displayed in one very wide dialog box.
> > I would expect it to break at the \n. Line breaks work, apparently,
> > on Linux, so I am told. But I have confirmed with others that they
> > see this anomalous message-box behavior on Windows .
>
> Yes, I can confirm that this is broken on MS Windows, and has been so back
> through at least Emacs 20. The newline char is displayed (in emacs -Q, at
> least) as an empty box.
The Windows port doesn't really have an implementation of a message
box, it just pops up a menu. And in a menu, each item is one line.
Patches to implement a true message box are welcome.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-31 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-31 14:53 bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message Dino Chiesa
2012-03-31 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2012-03-31 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-03-31 18:14 ` Drew Adams
2012-03-31 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 18:37 ` Drew Adams
2012-03-31 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 19:19 ` Drew Adams
2012-03-31 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 21:29 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-01 3:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-31 19:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-31 19:19 ` Drew Adams
2012-03-31 21:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-01 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
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