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bug#61553: 29.0.60; Inconsistent use of dialog boxes by read-multiple-ch
From: |
Augusto Stoffel |
Subject: |
bug#61553: 29.0.60; Inconsistent use of dialog boxes by read-multiple-choice |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:36:36 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 at 19:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:19:30 +0100
>>
>>
>> In the scratch buffer of emacs -Q, type
>>
>> (read-multiple-choice "Question" '((?y "yes") (?n "no")))
>>
>> then click, on the menu bar, "Lisp-Interaction -> Evaluate and Print".
>> As expected, I see a dialog box.
>>
>> Now repeat the same using the long-form style:
>>
>> (read-multiple-choice "Question" '((?y "yes") (?n "no")) nil nil t)
>>
>> Then I get a minibuffer query, but I would expect a dialog box in the
>> case as well.
>
> The long-form call does a completing-read, and we don't support that
> via GUI dialogs (how could we?).
Of course. The point is what takes precedence: the decision to prefer a
dialog over keyboard input, or the decision to do a completing-read
instead of reading a single char?
The purpose of long-form is to protect the user from doing something
dangerous by accidentally pressing a key. I don't think a mouse
equivalent for that exists or is needed.
So instead of adding a special case for kill-buffer, I would rather
modify the behavior of RMC to just ignore the long-form argument if
(use-dialog-box-p) returns t. Apart from that, your patch seems fine.