Re: The netsec thread

[Brett Gilio]

Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong writes:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > We do something similar in the prompt that 
> > > select-safe-coding-system
> > > presents, so "we have the technology".
> >
> > Ah, great!
> >
> > Then I think that would be nice -- I'm not much fan of modal 
> > prompts for
> > stuff like this, because that makes it difficult for the user 
> > to
> > interact with the buffer presented.  For instance, if we use a 
> > non-modal
> > interface, then the scrolling problems in the new "details" 
> > disappear:
> > The user can just scroll normally.
> >
> > And, as you suggest, we could have a button to expand some 
> > details "in
> > buffer".
>
> That sound great, but what is this select-safe-coding-system and 
> how
> do I look at its UI?

Agreed.

Eli, could you point me to the instance of 
select-safe-coding-system? I
am not able to find it in documentation or help.

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Brett M. Gilio
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