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bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Feb 2016 18:24:30 +1100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:12:21 +0100
>>
>> Yeah. But shouldn't we have a general multiple-choice library function
>> for these (sort of) extended y-or-n-p functions?
>>
>> While writing the NSM function, I was looking around for one, but the
>> only thing I found was `gnus-multiple-choice'. :-) So I had
>> implemented this before. A call using that function here would be
>>
>> (gnus-multiple-choice "Continue connecting?" '((?a "always")
>> (?s "session only")
>> (?n "no")))
>>
>> Or something. If the user types something else, you get a help buffer
>> and stuff.
>>
>> Shall I make that into a general function (it needs some tweaking in the
>> prompting department)?
>
> Sounds useful, thanks. Bonus points for optionally popping a dialog
> (via x-popup-dialog) when the command was invoked by a mouse.
Ok, I'll start implementing this, and we can tweak the look a bit. This
will be on the trunk, and not in emacs-25.
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bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/04
bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/04