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Re: Change to `use-dialog-box-p'


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: Change to `use-dialog-box-p'
Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 08:47:18 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> On what OS?

X, with both Motif and no toolkit (where the XMenu library is used for
dialog boxes.)

> Anyway, I see no reason to change the current behavior due to this
> scenario and similar ones.  Emacs didn't see any mouse-related input,
> so it has no reason to prefer GUI dialogs.  We will surprise and annoy
> users if we do.

But the existing behavior has existed for a very long time, and its
removal is now surprising me, and probably others as well.  I'd hate to
need to advise use-dialog-box-p...


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