Subject: Re: bug#45412: File ... is large (... MiB), really open? (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally

From: Daniel Martín <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 23:23:02 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>> -              (if use-dialog
>>> -                  (x-popup-dialog t `(,prompt
>>> -                                      ("Yes" . ?y)
>>> -                                      ("No" . ?n)
>>> -                                      ("Open literally" . ?l)))
>>
>> Why are we losing the feature whereby we use GUI dialogs to ask the
>> question?  This sounds like a regression to me, at least for users who
>> use the mouse and menu-bar in preference to the keyboard.  And the doc
>> string still says we do support the dialogs.  Am I missing something?
>
> The support for x-popup-dialog is in `read-multiple-choice', so I assume
> that it's just using that instead?  But I haven't tried the patch.

Yes, if you click on a large file in Dired, you'll see a graphical
prompt, as always.