Re: Exit hooks not run at logout on w32

[Mathias Dahl]

> I think this must be a misunderstanding. No one is talking about saving
> changes without the user saying so. The purpose of the patch is that
> Emacs should be able to ask the user at logooff/shutdown to save the
> changes. The situation now is that the changes are thrown away if they
> are not saved before.

If Microsoft's guide lines are what someone stated here, maybe the
reason for them is that the shutdown process is considered to have
higher priority than a user's unsaved data? If that is the case,
halting that process maybe isn't such a good idea. Someone said that
the autosave is enough and I agree. Your argument against it, that
someone might edit the file from some other program before using the
auto save data, does not seem like a very likely scenario. Or is it?