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29.0.50; [PATCH] Killing emacsclient terminal with `server-stop-automatically' doesn't prompt to save files

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 51993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, gregory <at> heytings.org
Subject: bug#51993: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Killing emacsclient terminal with `server-stop-automatically' doesn't prompt to save files
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:10:46 -0700

On 10/21/2022 11:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 20:46:47 -0700
>> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 51993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, gregory <at> heytings.org
>> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
>>
>> The issue in the quote above is that if you enable automatic server
>> shutdown in Emacs 29, it changes the behavior of exiting an emacsclient
>> even when it wouldn't stop the server (i.e. when there are other active
>> clients). That's surprising to me, I wouldn't expect that setting to
>> affect cases when it decides *not* to kill the Emacs daemon.
> 
> Sounds like a bug to me, because it contradicts what the doc string
> says.

That's how it seems to me too. In that case, I can update the patch I 
attached in my original message[1] to fix the bug. If we want to 
preserve the current behavior that Emacs 29 has exactly, we could also 
add a separate setting for how to handle killing the non-last client; 
then the two would be independently customizable. I'm not sure this is 
necessary, but if others think it is, I'm happy to write a patch for it.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2021-11/msg01702.html

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