From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:34:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874o7e23i8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lj0ptv9y.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zkp5qnrd.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vczsv8u3.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299703031 11279 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2011 20:37:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 21:37:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxQ81-0004b9-G6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:37:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43627 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxQ80-0004gw-No for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:21:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxPsZ-0006g6-5V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:21:09 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:33316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxPsY-0006fJ-VI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:21:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p29KLgCm005099; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A7A63664DD; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 13:34:06 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87vczsv8u3.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:20:36 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3735=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:22:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:44821 Archived-At: > I added `auth-source-read-char-choice' to do the prompting. It will use > `read-char-choice' opportunistically and construct the a/b/c prompt > supplement automatically. Good. > If you want me to modify `y-or-n-p' to use `read-char-choice' let me > know and I'll submit a patch. That would be a good change, yes, please. >>> I really like the way dropdown-list.el does selection (see >>> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/dropdown-list.el, "overlays stolen >>> from company-mode.el"). It shows the list of choices inside the buffer >>> as a true popup. To me that looks much better than y-or-n-p if the >>> terminal supports it. If Emacs doesn't have anything similar, I think >>> it's a nice addition to the core UI functionality. Let me know and I'll >>> propose it on emacs-devel if necessary. SM> I don't know what that would look like in your y/n/N/e/? case. > Try (dropdown-list '("choose one: y" "............n" "............N")) > since that's how it will look with the new > `auth-source-char-read-choice' function. Hmm... I'm not sure it's an improvement over the simple "y/n/N/e/?" prompt. For completions and other cases where the total text is too long to fit on a single line, such a dropdown-list can make sense, but for this particular case it just reminds of me people using tons of different typefaces in Word document. Stefan