Re: Those `mailcrypt' "push OK" boxes

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> écrit:

> | And then, you get an accepting interaction there?  Something that merely
> | flashes in the mini-buffer and disappears at the next random keystroke
> | could easily go un-noticed.

> I get an error message, just like any other error condition in Emacs, the
> way <insert deity> intended things to be.

Most error messages in Emacs do not require confirmation.  So, if I interpret
your answer, you are saying that you have no required confirmation that
you read the error message?  It might then disappear at the next random
keystroke.

> | Also, is the minibuffer guaranteed to extend for holding and displaying
> | the full diagnostic?  It is often multi-line.  Is there any required magic
> | for it?  (I use the resize-minibuffer mode, but it does not work perfectly
> | in all circumstances, at least from my experience.)

> Yeah, well, that is a flaw in FSF Emacs.  XEmacs minibuffer resizing
> appears to be much saner.

OK, well, I'm using Emacs most of the times, and XEmacs much less often.

> | I'm surely open to any solution, as long as it does work dependably! :-)
> Get used to pretty, gooey dialog boxes.

I think we are making circles, here.  I explained in a previous messages
a few reasons why I do not consider them to be good things.  I suggested
a replacement in which the mouse interaction and the special X-windows for
dialog were getting avoided.  If I remember correctly, you then did suggest
to just use the mini-buffer instead.  After further verification with you,
it seems using the mini-buffer does not really solve any of the problems.

The idea is not to push forward solutions just so they oppose each other,
this is not productive.  We should work towards ideas which improve things.
Let us mere <humans> try to do better than any <deity> out there! :-)

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