Re: yes-or-no-p and dialogs

[Jean Louis]

* Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi> [2022-12-27 19:07]:
> Is there any way to "quit" yes-or-no-p queries with MS Windows dialogs?
> I mean in the same way C-g would do in the minibuffer?

(setq use-dialog-box nil) ➜ t

and now you can interrupt it by using C-g:

(y-or-n-p "OK? ")

> Then I try to close (kill) Emacs by clicking on the "X" button on the
> upper right corner of the frame.
> 
> A dialog pops up, asking whether I'd like to clock out and save.  This
> dialog has "Yes" or "No" buttons, but no way to cancel, as far as I can
> see.

I understand, that is serious usability problem. There shall be option to cancl 
such dialogs.

On my system I can't see them, I do not know why, even though my variable:

use-dialog-box ➜ nil

-- 
Jean

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