Re: Canceling dialogues

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:39:21 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> CC:  rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > However, at least on my system, if I click anywhere outside the
> > dialog, the dialog pops down.  Lennart, didn't you say you were unable
> > to do so?  If the dialog can easily be popped down, perhaps all the
> > solutions discussed in this thread are not needed.
> >   
> The dialog pops down, but the user command continues.

I've now checked on GNU/Linux, and the dialogs behave there in exactly
the same manner: even if you click the "X" button in the upper-right
corner of the dialog, to close the dialog, the command continues; you
need to type some character to stop it.

So I think the Windows port behaves exactly like the X version here,
with the sole exception of C-g.  I will look into fixing the C-g case
when I have time (if no one beats me to it), but other than that, I
don't think we have a problem here that needs to be fixed before the
release.  (One could argue that the fact that the command continues
after closing the dialog is a bug or misfeature on all platforms, but
since this is so at least since v21.x, and probably long before that,
I think we can safely live with it until after the release.)