From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs does not listen on w32 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:50:26 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4800D965.9080202@gmail.com> <480208C8.3030401@gnu.org> <480212F7.7090409@gmail.com> <4802249D.2060909@gmail.com> <480271D2.7040304@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208123478 5520 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2008 21:51:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:51:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, jasonr@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 13 23:51:54 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JlA75-0001Dd-CZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:51:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlA6R-000260-AJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlA5s-0001fG-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlA5q-0001dn-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlA5q-0001da-LC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JlA5k-0003bH-UJ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:50:29 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([83.130.246.94]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0JZA00E2OANHCPV1@i_mtaout3.012.net.il>; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:04:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <480271D2.7040304@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:95135 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:49:22 +0200 > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" > CC: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > jasonr@gnu.org > > > Also, an application that is > > stuck in an unresponsive situation will not react to the click on the > > [X] button, but will instead cause the OS to display the "program is > > not responding" dialog. > > If that happens this is a bug in the program. The next step is that > Windows offers to send a copy of the memory etc to Microsoft. No, you misremember. It just suggests to end the program (i.e. kill it). > > I don't think Emacs should break all these user expectations about GUI > > program's behavior. > > Hm. You can't mean that users on w32 are used to buggy programs and that > therefore Emacs also should have a similar bug? ;-) I meant what I said; I cannot say it any simpler. And this silly thread blew a tiny issue way out of proportion, and have exhausted itself quite some time ago; time to end it.