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bug#7388: 24.0.50; "Active processes exist; kill them and exit anyway?"
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#7388: 24.0.50; "Active processes exist; kill them and exit anyway?" or let them live on, but exit emacs |
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Mon, 14 Oct 2019 03:10:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> "Active processes exist; kill them and exit anyway? (yes or no)"
> Why is there no third choice: "let them live on, but exit emacs"?
> Hasn't emacs ever heard of bash's $ help disown etc.? How could mighty
> emacs not be capable of things like that?
> And the whole thing should be reworded clearer too.
> Perhaps even implement choosing which processes are to live on after
> emacs exits.
I don't think implementing this would be impossible (although perhaps a
bit tricky to make it work on all OS-es: I have no idea), but I've never
felt a need for this. If there's no good use case, then I don't see the
point, so I'm closing this bug report.
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- bug#7388: 24.0.50; "Active processes exist; kill them and exit anyway?" or let them live on, but exit emacs,
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