From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Canceling dialogues
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:23:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uslkhmsll.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CE6532.2010403@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:16:50 +0200)
> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:16:50 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > So, unless we somehow program the function to discover that it is
> > called for YES/NO dialog, we cannot blithely add a CANCEL button to
> > it.
> >
> Why not add a cancel alternative for the other calls too?
Because we cannot be sure that CANCEL makes sense in the context of
the dialog.
> > If you meant to add code to x-popup-dialog that would recognize this
> > special case, I think fixing the generic dialog code is a better
> > investment of our resources and energy, and the result is going to be
> > much cleaner.
> >
> Yes, that would be better. But could not my suggestion be implemented
> with much less effort?
Maybe so, but it's ugly and unclean, IMHO.
> I tried to answer that in another message. It should do what C-g does
> for the command line alternative (minus some things that does not seem
> appropriate as David pointed out).
C-g is a bad idea, I think: it's too violent.
Anyway, since it's a non-trivial change, I don't think we should
consider it at this time. These ugly dialog emulations are with us
for a long time, so it's no disaster if we will have them for one more
release.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-31 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-31 17:38 Canceling dialogues Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-31 19:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-31 20:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-07-31 23:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 23:59 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 6:21 ` Jan Djärv
2006-07-31 20:49 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-31 21:19 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-31 23:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-01 5:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-01 6:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-01 20:09 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 4:35 ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-01 6:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 19:43 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-07-31 19:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 19:57 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-31 19:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 23:59 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 5:57 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-01 20:09 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-31 22:17 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 3:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 6:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-01 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 5:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 6:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-02 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-02 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-03 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-03 9:46 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-08-03 19:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-03 22:16 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-01 8:36 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-01 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-01 8:58 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-08-01 12:06 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-08-03 10:14 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-08-03 11:32 ` Mathias Dahl
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