From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs does not listen on w32
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:19:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4802249D.2060909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0804130716u354733a7m82e7849014e1fe68@mail.gmail.com>
Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
> <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would expect that the message sent to the Emacs when clicking on the
>> upper left [X] would terminate any loop, just like C-g terminates a loop in
>> a command.
>
> keyboard-quit's function is to signal a `quit' condition, so it does it.
>
> Clicking the upper left [X] sends a WM_CLOSE message to Emacs, which
> tells it to do an orderly exit. That includes executing Lisp code, and
> potentially doing a lot of things: writing files, asking the user,
> killing subprocesses, etc. If some of these things take forever, how
> it is Emacs to know that it is a bug and not expected behavior? For
> example, if something in kill-emacs-query-functions asks me and I
> don't answer, I wouldn't want Emacs to assume it can proceed...
Yes, those are good points, but I think you are perhaps missing my
point: That WM_CLOSE should be treated more like qiut.
That does not prevent Emacs from asking the type of question you mentioned.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-13 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-12 15:46 Emacs does not listen on w32 Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-12 19:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-13 13:21 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-13 14:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-13 14:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-13 15:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-04-13 15:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-13 15:56 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-13 16:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-13 16:15 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-13 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-13 16:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-13 20:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-13 21:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-13 21:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-13 21:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-13 21:15 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-13 21:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-13 21:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-13 21:21 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-13 21:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-13 21:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-14 1:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14 1:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-14 1:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-14 6:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-14 8:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-14 6:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-14 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14 16:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-14 18:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14 19:55 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-14 20:37 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-14 20:47 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-14 21:02 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-14 20:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14 20:11 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-14 20:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-14 21:39 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-14 22:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-14 22:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-04-14 23:51 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-15 0:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2008-04-15 0:04 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-15 17:53 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-13 21:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-13 22:10 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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2008-04-14 10:03 grischka
2008-04-14 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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