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24.5; Newlines in message-box output don't work on Windows

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 20481 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cpardo <at> imayhem.com
Subject: bug#20481: 24.5; , Newlines in message-box output don't work on Windows
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:14:53 +0300

> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Cc: cpardo <at> imayhem.com,  20481 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:02:25 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > It already is, since on older systems we will be unable to find
> > TaskDialogIndirect in comctl32.dll, and will fall back to the
> > menu-dialog implementation.  Or what am I missing?
> 
> I'm asking for an implementation of w32_popup_dialog that delegates
> parsing the menu to `list_of_panes', rather than to a custom parser such
> as the function currently implements, so that the dialog parser may be
> one and the same across all window systems.

Ah, okay.  But then this cannot be a job led by a w32-only developer,
it must be a cross-platform job led by someone who knows enough about
the other GUI systems to make the right abstractions.

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