On 11/29/2021 5:40 AM, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> 
> I'm in the process of implementing something that should satisfy 
> everyone, but it's not finished yet.

Thanks. Hopefully my proposal helps to explain more precisely my mental 
model and how I'd like things to work. If there's anything that's not 
clear, just let me know and I'll try to elaborate on it.

In case it would help, I've also attached the relevant bits of my Emacs 
configuration, which implements the Explicit Shutdown behavior I've 
described. Overall, it's similar to the first patch I posted in this 
bug, but it's usable in Emacs 27+ (maybe even earlier).

However, I think it has (at least) one problem: if `server-buffer-done' 
(indirectly called by `server-edit' / `C-x #') deletes the last client, 
it doesn't stop the daemon. I haven't had a chance to look into this in 
detail yet though. I think the most consistent behavior would be to stop 
the daemon in this case, since then the logic is simply "stop the daemon 
when the last client would be deleted", and we don't have to worry about 
exceptions to that rule.