Re: Mac: Don't quit Emacs when window is closed

[Philipp Stephani]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> schrieb am Mo., 18. Jan. 2016 um
18:10 Uhr:

> In article <mailman.2484.1453090928.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>  Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> > > Would this help a bit?
> > >
> > > (setq confirm-kill-emacs #'yes-or-no-p)
> >
> > The wider issue is that people expect to be able to close all windows
> > and keep an app open (the menu remains open).
>
> It's perfectly normal and expected for Mac applications, which is one of
> the reasons why the Mac menu bar is attached to the screen, not
> individual windows. Some single-window applications automatically quit
> when you close that window, but this would be unusual for multi-window
> applications.
>
>
Basically, Emacs should run the equivalent of (delete-frame nil :force)
when closing its window on OS X, not kill-emacs. When clicking the dock
icon without a frame present, a new one should be created with e.g.
make-frame.