Re: Emacs making questions while starting in daemon mode

[Chad Brown]

On Jul 6, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> C-g signal an error, which means that wathever is waiting for a return
> value is aborted as well.
> 
> The final outcome with that approach is that the user sees an emacs that
> did not complete the initialization, which is similar to the effects of
> a faulty .emacs.

There are probably roughly as many annoying corner cases in the `bull ahead' 
strategy as there are in the `wait for input' strategy.  Rather than trying to 
weigh and balance exceptional cases, why don't we look into having emacs open a 
window to ask those questions (or at least ask about bull-ahead-or-hang) if 
it's run --daemon?  The existing code used if you try to quit emacs using a 
mouse and the menu-bar (assuming a customized confirm-kill-emacs) ought to be a 
usable guide.

I don't (at the moment) have good access to a system where emacs --daemon is a 
useful option, which is my excuse for offering ideas rather than code.  My 
apologies.

*Chad