From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:04:21 +0200 Message-ID: <42D27C65.1090609@swipnet.se> References: <42D17A32.508@po-box.mcgill.ca> <42D194C6.2010402@student.lu.se> 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 1121091217 7413 80.91.229.2 (11 Jul 2005 14:13:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:13:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Brian van den Broek , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 11 16:13:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Drz1Z-0006ZT-Bx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:12:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Drz38-00076N-Op for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Drz0s-0006Ht-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Drz0j-0006DL-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Drz0j-0006Au-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.54.107.70] (helo=mxfep01.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Drz1B-0003I8-Ff for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([83.226.180.210] [83.226.180.210]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050711140442.GXXE11632.mxfep01.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:04:42 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <42D194C6.2010402@student.lu.se> 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:40773 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40773 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.