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File ... is large (... MiB), really open? (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Cc: 45412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, juri <at> linkov.net, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#45412: File ... is large (... MiB), really open? (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 05:28:15 +0300

> From: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  45412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   jidanni <at> jidanni.org,  juri <at> linkov.net
> 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.

With which buttons and which text?

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