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bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#19368: 25.0.50; NSM prompt is not self-explanatory enough |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:02:33 +0200 |
> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:12:21 +0100
>
> Yeah. But shouldn't we have a general multiple-choice library function
> for these (sort of) extended y-or-n-p functions?
>
> While writing the NSM function, I was looking around for one, but the
> only thing I found was `gnus-multiple-choice'. :-) So I had
> implemented this before. A call using that function here would be
>
> (gnus-multiple-choice "Continue connecting?" '((?a "always")
> (?s "session only")
> (?n "no")))
>
> Or something. If the user types something else, you get a help buffer
> and stuff.
>
> Shall I make that into a general function (it needs some tweaking in the
> prompting department)?
Sounds useful, thanks. Bonus points for optionally popping a dialog
(via x-popup-dialog) when the command was invoked by a mouse.
Btw, if you do that, userlock.el cries for using this functionality,
and likewise hack-local-variables-confirm.