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23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com
Subject: bug#11138: 23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:37:35 -0700

> > I see.  I don't have a true message-box implementation, but 
> > wouldn't it be possible to just use multiple menu lines for this?
> 
> Not if we reuse the normal menu-creation code, I would think.  But the
> truth is that I simply don't know enough about this to say something
> intelligent.  Again, if this is possible, patches are welcome.

It certainly would be possible (trivial) in Lisp: just split the string at each
\n and create a separate (non-selectable) menu item for each.

But this code is in C for some reason, so I'm afraid someone else will need to
come up with the requisite patch.

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