GNU bug report logs - #45412
File ... is large (... MiB), really open? (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 45412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net, jidanni <at> jidanni.org,
 Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: bug#45412: File ... is large (... MiB), really open? (y)es or
 (n)o or (l)iterally
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:14:42 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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.

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