Re: Emacs does not listen on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:19:57 +0200
> > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Emacs Devel <address@hidden>,
> >         Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> > WM_CLOSE should be treated more like qiut.
>
> Other Windows GUI applications do not behave like that: they will ask
> you whether to save unsaved changes etc.

Well, that is what I wanted WM_CLOSE to do, of course. I just want one 
additional thing first: break out of any loop that makes it impossible 
to exit Emacs in the normal way.

> Also, an application that is
> stuck in an unresponsive situation will not react to the click on the
> [X] button, but will instead cause the OS to display the "program is
> not responding" dialog.

If that happens this is a bug in the program. The next step is that 
Windows offers to send a copy of the memory etc to Microsoft.

> I don't think Emacs should break all these user expectations about GUI
> program's behavior.

Hm. You can't mean that users on w32 are used to buggy programs and that 
therefore Emacs also should have a similar bug? ;-)