Re: Emacs does not listen on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >  I do not know what can be done in those circumstances, but I guess that the
> > window and message framework is still there. (This depends on exactly how
> > the exit is implemented.) In that case I would think it is best to interrupt
> > that loop to.
>
> You have not yet answered my previous question: how do you
> differentiate between useful work, and looping forever? With a
> timeout?


I tried to answer it by saying that if Emacs recieves WM_CLOSE (or 
something similar on other platform) then the user has decided to exit 
Emacs.

But you have a point. I guess it would be reasonable to ask the user if 
the ongoing work should be quitted before exiting.