I posted a while ago about the way e16 exits -- in particular, how
other apps (like gvim) are affected by it...

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=16523608

Bram Moolenaar of gvim fame seems to disagree:

> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:16:01 +0200,
> Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dennis Nezic wrote:
> 
> > when i exit my wm (e16), since it doesn't (and shouldn't) close any
> > other programs, gvim is stuck without an x server, and doesn't
> > handle this loss gracefully. effectively, it's as if it was kill
> > -9'ed ... and thus leaves temporary files behind, which i later
> > have to labouriously clean up.
> > 
> > can it not do something better .... like simply close down if no
> > changes were made to the file (and close any temp files). and, i
> > guess, leave the temp files behind if changes were made (as it
> > currently does in all cases :\).
> 
> Vim normally handles a shutdown of the window manager gracefully.
> There is a protocol for this and Vim implements it.  This may result
> in the window manager not exiting when Vim has modified files.
> 
> If you forcefully kill the window manager or the X server you will
> get a hanging gvim (and possibly other programs).  That's your own
> fault then.
> 
> If you shut down the window manager properly but Vim still hangs
> somehow, perhaps the window manager doesn't work properly.  You could
> try another one.

He seems to be making sense. ?


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