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#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:06:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83iphkk5lo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6A87BDCA21CE468C8C567E4F12977F82@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333217226 13677 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2012 18:07:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:07:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11138@debbugs.gnu.org, dpchiesa@hotmail.com To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 31 20:07:02 2012 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 1SE2hZ-0006MS-Tg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:07:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE2hZ-0000UF-7P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE2hW-0000Sd-NI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:06:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE2hV-0004Iq-2L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE2hU-0004Im-Vi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SE2ha-00024h-6E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:07:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:07:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11138 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11138-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11138.13332172147962 (code B ref 11138); Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:07:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11138) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Mar 2012 18:06:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33170 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SE2hS-00024N-GM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:06:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:62868) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SE2hQ-00024F-L7 for 11138@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M1R00500G1MVC00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 11138@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:06:24 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.100.223]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M1R005AWGYNTZ80@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:06:24 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <6A87BDCA21CE468C8C567E4F12977F82@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:58393 Archived-At: severity 11138 wishlist stop > From: "Drew Adams" > 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.