Re: [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting

Re: [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting

[Lennart Borgman]

Brian van den Broek wrote:

> The main query:
> I am having a problem quiting emacs. If I have open modified buffers, 
> and wish to quit without saving I can quit with C-x C-c and answering 
> the minibuffer prompts accordingly. However, if I try Menu->File->Exit 
> Emacs or clicking the close button on the right of the title bar, I 
> run into problems.
>
> I get a pop-up dialog asking me if I want to save (one of) the 
> modified buffers. If I click on no, I bounce right back to the buffer 
> I was viewing, and I do not exit emacs. It seems to me that instead I 
> ought get the dialog for the next unsaved and modified buffer, and 
> exit emacs when I've said no to all such dialog prompts.
>
> Am I misunderstanding the intended behaviour? Or, is there something I 
> need to add to my .emacs file to enable what I think ought happen? Any 
> advice would be appreciated.
>
> I did search this list archive for both "quit" and "quiting", but 
> nothing of relevance came up. Attempts to google did not help -- 
> windows being an emacs term as well as the name of my OS seemed to get 
> in the way :-)

This seems to be a bug in CVS Emacs.

Re: [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting

[Jan D.]

Lennart Borgman wrote:

> Brian van den Broek wrote:
>
>> The main query:
>> I am having a problem quiting emacs. If I have open modified buffers, 
>> and wish to quit without saving I can quit with C-x C-c and answering 
>> the minibuffer prompts accordingly. However, if I try 
>> Menu->File->Exit Emacs or clicking the close button on the right of 
>> the title bar, I run into problems.
>>
>> I get a pop-up dialog asking me if I want to save (one of) the 
>> modified buffers. If I click on no, I bounce right back to the buffer 
>> I was viewing, and I do not exit emacs. It seems to me that instead I 
>> ought get the dialog for the next unsaved and modified buffer, and 
>> exit emacs when I've said no to all such dialog prompts.
>>
>> Am I misunderstanding the intended behaviour? Or, is there something 
>> I need to add to my .emacs file to enable what I think ought happen? 
>> Any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> I did search this list archive for both "quit" and "quiting", but 
>> nothing of relevance came up. Attempts to google did not help -- 
>> windows being an emacs term as well as the name of my OS seemed to 
>> get in the way :-)
>
>
> This seems to be a bug in CVS Emacs.


This does not happen on Mac OSX or GNU/Linux.

    Jan D.

Re: [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting

[Richard M. Stallman]

    > I get a pop-up dialog asking me if I want to save (one of) the 
    > modified buffers. If I click on no, I bounce right back to the buffer 
    > I was viewing, and I do not exit emacs.

It does not fail for me.  (I am using the Lucid widgets on GNU/Linux.)
Can anyone else reproduce this?

Re: [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting

[David Hunter]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:
>     > I get a pop-up dialog asking me if I want to save (one of) the 
>     > modified buffers. If I click on no, I bounce right back to the buffer 
>     > I was viewing, and I do not exit emacs.
> 
> It does not fail for me.  (I am using the Lucid widgets on GNU/Linux.)
> Can anyone else reproduce this?

This seems to be a problem with Win32's x-popup-menu.  The following Lisp demonstrates the bug.

(let* ((position t)
       (contents '("q1" ("yes" . 1) ("no" . 2)))
       (menu (cons (car contents) (cons contents nil))))
  (setq q1 (x-popup-menu position menu))
  (setq q2 (x-popup-menu position menu))
  (format "q1=%s, q2=%s" q1 q2))

You should see two consecutive yes/no popups, followed by the display of your choices.

On Windows, you see only the first popup and corresponding answer.  The second call to x-popup-menu returns nil.

I suspect that 'menu_free_timer' and 'current_popup_menu' are to blame.

-Dave