Re: C-x C-c needs to say more than just "save file...?"

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From: Charles Sebold <csebold@ezl.com>
Subject: Re: C-x C-c needs to say more than just "save file...?"
Date: 03 Jan 2001 09:23:14 -0600

> On 8 Teveth 5761, sen ml wrote:
> 
> >> Furthermore, if one accidentally hits the little button to kill
> >> window in the corner of the emacs window, one is given a pop-up menu
> >> called "Question", with one of the choices mentioning killing emacs
> >> etc, however other options on that menu also have the effect of
> >> killing emacs, [as does killing this pop-up window!] one would think
> >> the other choices wouldn't kill emacs due to them not also mentioning
> >> it.
> > 
> > fwiw, i don't seem to have such a little button in my environment.
> 
> He may have been speaking of "windows" in the X11 window-manager sense
> of the word, in which case he would be asking that before a window be
> killed by clicking a close button that the window manager provides,
> Emacs should try to verify the action.  (Just a thought.)

i'm running x11 as well, and w/ the way my window manager is
configured (pretty much default), there is no such button -- i
mentioned this because that lack makes it difficult for me to
investigate ;-)

i agree that it would be nice for Emacs to verify the action, but if i
understand correctly, depending on what the button is set up to do, it
may not be possible.  i wouldn't mind at all to be proven wrong on
this.