From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: jasonspiro4@gmail.com, 4980@debbugs.gnu.org,
lennart.borgman@gmail.com, jasonr@f2s.com
Subject: bug#4980: 23.1.50; In File > Quit GUI, add "Cancel", write "Save", and simplify
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:56:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837daldkb5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dalj9f5.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:55:10 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:55:10 +0100
> Cc: "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>, 4980@debbugs.gnu.org,
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>
> Jason Rumney <jasonr@f2s.com> writes:
>
> >> Not sure. This is for experienced users also. Fast ways are useful,
> >> but maybe not when using dialog boxes.
> >>
> >
> > Personally I only see a need for a dialog with 3 buttons. "Close
> > without saving" "Save All" and "Cancel"
> >
> > Anything more complicated and the user can Cancel, resolve the
> > situation and attempt to exit again.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
> at the time.)
>
> Good idea. Now done in Emacs 29.
This now pops the dialog when you click File->Quit immediately after
entering "emacs -Q". But there's no buffer that needs saving at that
point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-27 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-19 23:05 bug#4980: 23.1.50; In File > Quit GUI, add "Cancel", write "Save", and simplify Jason A. Spiro
2009-11-19 23:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-20 3:59 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-20 4:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-27 18:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-27 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-01-27 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-27 21:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-28 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-28 13:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2009-11-20 9:31 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20 9:55 ` Jan Djärv
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