GNU bug report logs - #11138
23.3; on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message

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Packages: emacs, w32;

Reported by: "Dino Chiesa" <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:56:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 23.3

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Dino Chiesa'" <dpchiesa <at> hotmail.com>, <11138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#11138: 23.3;
	on Windows, message-box does not display line breaks in the message
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.
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