From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'emacs-devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: File > Close and File > Save
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:13:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E6F20C.4040308@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003b01c88d37$2963c060$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams wrote:
> `Close' is often used for a dialog box or an application, and in the File menu,
> in particular, it can be confusing (`Close' vs `Exit Emacs'), if not
> meaningless.
>
In my experience Close is used to Close files or windows within an
application. Some applications will exit when the last file or window is
closed, others leave a blank window and disable that menu entry. Exit is
used to exit applications.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-24 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-23 22:42 File > Close and File > Save Drew Adams
2008-03-24 0:13 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-03-24 4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-24 5:57 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-24 10:57 ` Jason Rumney
2008-03-24 16:50 ` David Reitter
2008-03-24 16:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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