From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:36:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42D194C6.2010402@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D17A32.508@po-box.mcgill.ca>
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.
next parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-10 21:36 UTC|newest]
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2005-07-10 21:36 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-07-11 14:04 ` [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting Jan D.
2005-07-11 16:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-12 1:35 ` David Hunter
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