Re: emacsclient: controlling from an application?

[drmemory@starband.net (DrMemory)]

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.

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

That didn't seem to work either. I also tried just putting a function
which doesn't take any arguments (delete-other-windows). No effect
there either.

Sorry to be such a dunce. I'll maybe try your timer idea, but I really
ought to be getting at some of those lines in '2do.txt', the file in
question!