Re: The netsec thread

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 02:52:23 +0100
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>
>> 
>> That sound great, but what is this select-safe-coding-system and how
>> do I look at its UI?
>
> lisp/international/mule-cmds.el, look at
> select-safe-coding-system-interactively, a subroutine of
> select-safe-coding-system.  In a nutshell, it prepares and pops up a
> buffer with special content, then prompts the user to select one of
> several alternatives.

Hm...  I ran:

(select-safe-coding-system-interactively 1 3 (find-coding-systems-region 1 3) 
nil)

and it just popped up a buffer with some text and then called
`read-coding-system', which is kinda close to what the NSM prompt is
doing already.  Only the NSM prompt calls a y-or-n-p-equivalent, so that
you can't enter any other keys then the required ones, while
`read-coding-system' uses the more freeform minibuffer read...

So it's still modal, and not the more "just drop us into a buffer with a
special mode and continue execution after the user hits a keystroke",
isn't it?

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