From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: yes-or-no-p and dialogs
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:28:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y6srIbWFbDAM5kkq@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x2mfsd0ltl0.fsf@iki.fi>
* Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi> [2022-12-27 19:07]:
> Is there any way to "quit" yes-or-no-p queries with MS Windows dialogs?
> I mean in the same way C-g would do in the minibuffer?
(setq use-dialog-box nil) ➜ t
and now you can interrupt it by using C-g:
(y-or-n-p "OK? ")
> Then I try to close (kill) Emacs by clicking on the "X" button on the
> upper right corner of the frame.
>
> A dialog pops up, asking whether I'd like to clock out and save. This
> dialog has "Yes" or "No" buttons, but no way to cancel, as far as I can
> see.
I understand, that is serious usability problem. There shall be option to cancl such dialogs.
On my system I can't see them, I do not know why, even though my variable:
use-dialog-box ➜ nil
--
Jean
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-27 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-27 16:06 yes-or-no-p and dialogs Petteri Hintsanen
2022-12-27 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-27 17:37 ` Thibaut Verron
2022-12-27 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-27 19:09 ` Thibaut Verron
2022-12-27 18:23 ` Petteri Hintsanen
2022-12-27 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-27 19:38 ` Petteri Hintsanen
2022-12-27 17:28 ` Jean Louis [this message]
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