Re: The netsec thread

[Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Andy Moreton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon 23 Jul 2018, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> ... except if you do press a different key, NSM gets stuck and does not
> accept new valid keys (other than ^G to quit).
>
>     AndyM
>
>

That sounds like a lot of trouble just to deal with ^G