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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: emacsclient: controlling from an application?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:17:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8EB68D.1010209@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Bqjjb.28$EJ2.9715726@twister2.starband.net

DrMemory wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:24:25 GMT, Stefan Monnier
> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>You can use `kill -USR1 <emacs process>' in your cron job
>>and something akin to (add-hook 'signal-USR1-hook 'save-some-buffers).
>>Same thing with USR2 of course.  I've never tried it, tho.
> 
> I can't get this to work. I'm a babe-in-the-woods when it comes to
> elisp, but doesn't the save-some-buffers need a non-nil argument to
> make it save all? Otherwise, it will try to prompt the (non-existent)
> user for each buffer.


Yes.


> Would it be
>    (add-hook 'signal-USR1-hook '(save-some-buffers t)) ?


(add-hook 'signal-USR1-hook (lambda () (save-some-buffers t)))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-16 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-15 17:41 emacsclient: controlling from an application? DrMemory
2003-10-15 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-15 18:44   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-15 19:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-15 21:58   ` DrMemory
2003-10-16 15:17     ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-10-16 16:48       ` DrMemory
2003-10-16 19:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-15 18:25 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-15 20:36   ` DrMemory
2003-10-15 21:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-17 22:45       ` DrMemory
2003-10-20 16:58         ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-15 20:46 ` DrMemory
2003-10-15 20:57   ` DrMemory
2003-12-01 21:40 ` Kai Grossjohann

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