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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