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bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:06:27 +0300 |
severity 11138 wishlist
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> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:26:50 -0700
>
> > (message-box (concat "First line in a long-ish message.\n"
> > "This is line number 2 in the message."))
> >
> > The message gets displayed in one very wide dialog box.
> > I would expect it to break at the \n. Line breaks work, apparently,
> > on Linux, so I am told. But I have confirmed with others that they
> > see this anomalous message-box behavior on Windows .
>
> Yes, I can confirm that this is broken on MS Windows, and has been so back
> through at least Emacs 20. The newline char is displayed (in emacs -Q, at
> least) as an empty box.
The Windows port doesn't really have an implementation of a message
box, it just pops up a menu. And in a menu, each item is one line.
Patches to implement a true message box are welcome.
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Dino Chiesa, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Drew Adams, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Drew Adams, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Drew Adams, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Drew Adams, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Drew Adams, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Stefan Monnier, 2012/03/31
- bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message, Drew Adams, 2012/03/31