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[PATCH] Pass restart argument to 'kill-emacs-query-functions'

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From: me <at> elken.dev
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 65719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#65719: [PATCH] Pass restart argument to 'kill-emacs-query-functions'
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:54:42 +0000

> It's a strange (and maybe even dangerous) distinction.

I'm afraid I don't see this, could you elaborate?

> But in any case, I think a cleaner solution would be to bind a
> variable inside restart-emacs, and then your hook could examine it.
> Alternatively, ...
> 
>> > In any case, the prefix argument is available via current-prefix-arg.
>> 
>> Yes you're right, I realised after I sent it....
> 
> ...you could invoke restart-emacs with a prefix argument, and examine
> that in your kill-emacs-query-functions hook.  AFAICT, this should
> work without any changes.

I'm afraid I also don't follow here, how is that cleaner than 
introducing
a specific hook? Rather than needing to specifically modify a function
to work with the prefix argument, you can just add it to the hook.

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