From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:36:06 +0200 Message-ID: <42D194C6.2010402@student.lu.se> References: <42D17A32.508@po-box.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121032895 8314 80.91.229.2 (10 Jul 2005 22:01:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:01:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 11 00:01:34 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Drjr7-0002Rq-Bq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:00:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Drjse-0002hO-Js for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Drjoj-0001Mw-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:58:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrjoU-0001EN-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:58:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrjoQ-00019E-6T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:58:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DrjaQ-000480-7T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42BFBBD20026F86F; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:36:11 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Brian van den Broek , Emacs Devel In-Reply-To: <42D17A32.508@po-box.mcgill.ca> 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:40738 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40738 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.