From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21833: 24.4; desktop-kill, which is interactive, is in kill-emacs-hook Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:38:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <5644F186.1000405@siancu.net> <5644F584.5060205@siancu.net> <83wptngcxy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447371627 6457 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2015 23:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 23:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21833@debbugs.gnu.org, Stelian Iancu To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 00:40:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1TM-0003k5-2L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:40:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1TL-0007cQ-LN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45025) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1TI-0007cA-2V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1TH-0003qa-9K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:40:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44529) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1TH-0003qW-5W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:40:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1TG-0004I3-NU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:40:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 23:40:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21833 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21833-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21833.144737155316431 (code B ref 21833); Thu, 12 Nov 2015 23:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21833) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Nov 2015 23:39:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35237 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1ST-0004Gx-1R for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:39:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34516) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1S8-0004G9-Mp for 21833@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:39:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1S7-0003Rm-Fi for 21833@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1S5-0003RL-Uq; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:38:49 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx1S5-0008LS-33; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:38:49 -0500 X-Spook: S Key Food Poisoning Arellano-Felix Pakistan Port X-Ran: ~-q${A)%&p9WY9BPL2&+4a6X92?!N!J+Fcw'9j_ X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:108694 Archived-At: The point is, kill-emacs-hook can run in situations where it is impossible for Emacs to interact with the user. Any yes-or-no-p questions will never be answered. Emacs will hang and have to be forcibly killed. Exactly as it says in the OP. So don't put anything on kill-emacs-hook that needs an interactive response from the user. Decide on a sensible non-interactive behaviour, and for the interactive case use kill-emacs-query-functions. The documentation seems clear to me.