Re: Canceling dialogues

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Why not add a cancel alternative for the other calls too?
> >     
>
> Because we cannot be sure that CANCEL makes sense in the context of
> the dialog.
>   
I do not understand. If a dialog box is not used then C-g has a semantic 
today. I just suggest using the same semantics for dialog boxes (through 
the use of a new alternative).
> Maybe so, but it's ugly and unclean, IMHO.
>   
It is ugly, yes. Unclean? Not sure.
> C-g is a bad idea, I think: it's too violent.
>   
Why is it too violent when a dialog box is used (but not otherwise)?