When I try to kill an emacs server from the command line by: emacsclient -e '(save-buffers-kill-emacs)' nothing appears to happen if there are any unsaved buffers. I presume that this is because the prompt goes to the usual place (below the mode line in the screen), which of course isn't visible from the command line because there isn't any screen when using "emacsclient -e". This is a follow-up to bug 55560, where it was suggested that kill-emacs is inappropriate and instead I should use save-buffers-kill-emacs. Probably not relevant, but including for completeness: I have the following "my-exit" function added to kill-emacs-query-functions; I've confirmed that this use of daemonp behaves as expected and that the "Really kill Emacs?" prompt doesn't happen: (defun my-exit () (or (daemonp) (yes-or-no-p "Really kill Emacs? "))) In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2022-05-21 built on penguin Repository revision: 208102fa470e3417320062cdb48a9967d80bf092 Repository branch: master System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/home/peter/.local --with-gnutls PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/peter/.local/lib/pkgconfig:' Configured features: FREETYPE GIF GMP GNUTLS JPEG LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XAW3D XDBE XFT XIM XPM LUCID ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Apropos Minor modes in effect: global-auto-revert-mode: t display-time-mode: t savehist-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t buffer-read-only: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: ~/src/pykythe/emacs/prolog hides /home/peter/.local/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/progmodes/prolog Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message yank-media rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils shortdoc help-fns radix-tree misearch multi-isearch mule-util apropos time-date term/xterm xterm finder-inf package browse-url url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history url-cookie url-domsuf url-util mailcap url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map url-vars cl-extra help-mode seq gv subr-x byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv autorevert filenotify grep compile text-property-search comint ansi-color ring cus-load time savehist desktop frameset cl-loaddefs cl-lib iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice simple cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads inotify dynamic-setting font-render-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 91186 8875) (symbols 48 9960 1) (strings 32 29163 1620) (string-bytes 1 904097) (vectors 16 15493) (vector-slots 8 175522 6636) (floats 8 79 477) (intervals 56 533 0) (buffers 992 12))