From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New customization option for killing processes without asking Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:17:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83inthb1a4.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475003877 21868 195.159.176.226 (27 Sep 2016 19:17:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 27 21:17:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1boxso-0003IZ-PC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:17:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53060 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boxsn-00060a-6c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:17:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40527) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boxse-0005yq-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boxsa-00014i-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boxsa-00014U-9b; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2357 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1boxsZ-0002H7-I9; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:17:23 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:53:40 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207842 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:53:40 +0000 > > there seem to be sufficiently many people annoyed by the "Active processes exist; kill them and exit anyway" > prompt (see e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/q/2706527/178761) that I created a new customization option to > make prompting optional. I've attached a patch, which I can push to master unless there are complaints. Fine with me, but I have 2 comments: . Please add a NEWS entry and mention this in the 2 manuals. . Please modify the test so that it doesn't invoke programs which might not exist on non-Posix platforms; my obvious suggestion would be to invoke a subordinate Emacs. Thanks.