From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mac: Don't quit Emacs when window is closed Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:05:13 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87lh7n96er.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453137040 7688 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2016 17:10:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:10:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 18 18:10:40 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aLDKB-0002AK-OK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:10:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60978 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLDKB-0007d8-40 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:10:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="28871"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+MsiCoMJZqtsSOustDuizS" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:x+7iqEtSTdGB5B3yGGjh2S6Jpk4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216477 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108768 Archived-At: In article , Random832 wrote: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > > Would this help a bit? > > > > (setq confirm-kill-emacs #'yes-or-no-p) > > The wider issue is that people expect to be able to close all windows > and keep an app open (the menu remains open). It's perfectly normal and expected for Mac applications, which is one of the reasons why the Mac menu bar is attached to the screen, not individual windows. Some single-window applications automatically quit when you close that window, but this would be unusual for multi-window applications. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***