From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 51993@debbugs.gnu.org, gregory@heytings.org
Subject: bug#51993: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Killing emacsclient terminal with `server-stop-automatically' doesn't prompt to save files
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:38:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h6zxwujo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ddf3f7b9-4aaa-996d-468c-87ac2cf6a0e8@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:51:42 -0700)
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:51:42 -0700
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 51993@debbugs.gnu.org, gregory@heytings.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>
> >> b) if this *is* the last client, prompt the user to save everything
> >> (as with 'save-buffers-kill-emacs'), and then delete the client + kill
> >> the Emacs daemon.
> >
> > You mean, in b), instead of just deleting the frame and leaving the
> > daemon run, you want to shut down Emacs in its entirety, as if the
> > user invoked kill-emacs? I'm okay with that as an optional behavior,
> > although I myself won't use it, as it's too dangerous.
>
> Almost. I'd like it to be as if the user invoked
> 'save-buffers-kill-emacs'; that is, before killing Emacs, prompt the
> user about everything[1] that might be lost by killing Emacs.
That should already happen, if you just call save-buffers-kill-emacs
in that case, right?
> This already exists as an option -- (server-stop-automatically
> 'delete-frame)[2], but I also find the current behavior too dangerous.
> My original message outlines one of the problems with the current
> implementation: it changes the behavior of (a) in my description above.
>
> > $ emacs -Q --daemon
> > $ emacsclient -a "" -c foo.txt
> > $ emacsclient -a "" -c bar.txt
> >
> > ;; In the first client frame:
> > foobar ;; Insert some text
> > C-x C-c
> > ;; Emacs prompts "Save file /path/to/foo.txt?..."
> >
> > Now try the above, but call `(server-stop-automatically 'delete-frame)' first (or replace `delete-frame' with `kill-terminal'; it doesn't matter). In this case, Emacs doesn't prompt to save the file.
I'm not sure I see the direct relevance, and I don't think I see a bug
in the above behavior. I'm probably missing something, but what?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-21 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-20 4:29 bug#51993: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Killing emacsclient terminal with `server-stop-automatically' doesn't prompt to save files Jim Porter
2021-11-20 7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-23 9:48 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-11-23 18:25 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-23 20:37 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-11-23 22:08 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-23 22:49 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-11-23 23:42 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-23 23:59 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-11-24 1:10 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-29 5:39 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-29 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 13:40 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-11-29 19:31 ` Jim Porter
2022-01-01 0:11 ` Jim Porter
2022-09-09 17:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-09 18:04 ` Jim Porter
2022-10-09 22:09 ` Jim Porter
2022-10-10 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-20 3:14 ` Jim Porter
2022-10-20 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-21 5:51 ` Jim Porter
2022-10-21 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-22 3:46 ` Jim Porter
2022-10-22 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-25 3:10 ` Jim Porter
2022-10-30 22:32 ` Jim Porter
2022-11-29 5:31 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-01 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-02 1:09 ` bug#51993: 29.0.50; [PATCH for 29.1] " Jim Porter
2022-12-02 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-02 21:33 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-04 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-04 22:26 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-06 22:20 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-02 1:42 ` bug#51993: 29.0.50; [PATCH explanation] " Jim Porter
2022-12-02 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 19:12 ` bug#51993: 29.0.50; [PATCH] " Jim Porter
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