Re: Canceling dialogues

[Stuart D. Herring]

> If you use the menus in Emacs to call a function and this function for
> example calls y-or-n-p then a popup dialog will be shown (if
> use-dialog-box is t). This dialog box can not be canceled, at least not
> on w32.
>
> I think this is a bug and that a third alternative for canceling should
> be added.

What should y-or-n-p return if the user chooses this alternative?  Should
it signal 'quit (like C-g would)?  What if `inhibit-quit' is t?  The idea
of an escape route for the user is not a bad one, but I wonder if the
notion of "cancelling" is insufficiently generalizable to apply to just
any use of `y-or-n-p'.  Is there a specific behavior that you would want
to associate with this?

Davis

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