From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Canceling dialogues Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:57:21 +0200 Message-ID: <851ws1gfr2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154413719 9171 80.91.229.2 (1 Aug 2006 06:28:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 06:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 01 08:28:37 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 1G7nju-00014X-7Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:28:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7njt-0003TE-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:28:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7nhz-0001Kl-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7nhx-0001Ix-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7nhx-0001Ig-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:26:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G7nkm-0002Iv-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1G7nhp-0002Eo-4b; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 0AF351D25D66; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 07:57:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:59:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:57914 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > What should y-or-n-p return if the user chooses this alternative? Should > it signal 'quit (like C-g would)? > > Yes, exactly. > > What if `inhibit-quit' is t? > > Then the quit happens later. There won't be a "later" until an alternative is selected. It think it would be quite confusing if the menu appeared to do nothing, and then clicking on either "Yes" or "No" would trigger a quit later on. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum