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bug#43957: remove process-kill-buffer-query-function from kill-buffer-qu
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#43957: remove process-kill-buffer-query-function from kill-buffer-query-functions |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:58:34 +0000 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> When explicitly killing a shell/eshell or terminal-emulator
>> ansi-term/term buffer, a user shouldn't have to take an extra step to
>> respond to the prompt of process-kill-buffer-query-function. In such
>> cases, the process for which function process-kill-buffer-query-function
>> is activated is the foreground shell process, so of course the conscious
>> user intent is to kill it.
>
> FWIW, I'm not sure an unconditional change in behavior here is TRT.
> Killing a buffer doesn't necessarily imply the user is aware that the
> process will be killed as well.
Indeed. I for one would find an unconditional change here highly
unsettling. I often have a bunch of processes running in the background
and can't be bothered to remember which is running in which buffer.
Getting prompted is important so I don't lose any work.
> I wouldn't object to an opt-in option, though.
Agreed.