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

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Message #56 received at 45412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 45412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, juri <at> linkov.net,
 jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#45412: File ... is large (... MiB), really open? (y)es or
 (n)o or (l)iterally
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 23:23:02 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> 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.

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

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