Re: Logic behind CLOSE and EXIT.

[Preben Randhol <randhol pvv org>]

Karl EICHWALDER <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

| |   Thus, having CLOSE exit shouldn't be an option.  If you want to
| |   CLOSE you CLOSE and if you want to EXIT you EXIT.
| 
| You're absolutely right.  E.g., acroread behaves okay.  Even Emacs might
| be okay (Emacs uses a different approach: you simply cannot close the
| last buffer).
| 
| CLOSE should never EXIT.

Why not? In a document-centric approach you work on documents. Open
them and close them as you need. Here the document is in the centre
and the application only makes it possible to alter the documents. 
Think of it as say reading books. You open the book read some pages
then close it. Or writing in a log, open - edit - close.

In other words the application is more or less transparent so when
closing a document means that you close the document. Whether there is
another document open, which uses the same application (and thus makes
the program still run) is a separate incident and not important to the
document you edited. :-)

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