Re: [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting

[Lennart Borgman]

Brian van den Broek wrote:

> The main query:
> I am having a problem quiting emacs. If I have open modified buffers, 
> and wish to quit without saving I can quit with C-x C-c and answering 
> the minibuffer prompts accordingly. However, if I try Menu->File->Exit 
> Emacs or clicking the close button on the right of the title bar, I 
> run into problems.
>
> I get a pop-up dialog asking me if I want to save (one of) the 
> modified buffers. If I click on no, I bounce right back to the buffer 
> I was viewing, and I do not exit emacs. It seems to me that instead I 
> ought get the dialog for the next unsaved and modified buffer, and 
> exit emacs when I've said no to all such dialog prompts.
>
> Am I misunderstanding the intended behaviour? Or, is there something I 
> need to add to my .emacs file to enable what I think ought happen? Any 
> advice would be appreciated.
>
> I did search this list archive for both "quit" and "quiting", but 
> nothing of relevance came up. Attempts to google did not help -- 
> windows being an emacs term as well as the name of my OS seemed to get 
> in the way :-)

This seems to be a bug in CVS Emacs.