[h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting

[Brian van den Broek]

Hi all,

I'm a Python hobbyist and am getting into LaTeX, so I have decided to 
give emacs a try. I'm no hacker by far.

I am running GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (binaries obtained from Nqmacs 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/nqmacs/>) on WinXP SP2. I'm using the 
O'Reilly "Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition" to learn with.

A quick question before my main one:
I'm having some difficulty with emacs' Python support. Would it be 
better to post here or to comp.lang.python (which I also read)?


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 :-)

Thanks and best,

Brian vdB