Re: Gracefully save buffers and stop emacs daemon.

Re: Gracefully save buffers and stop emacs daemon.

[Joost Kremers]

amicitas wrote:
> The closest solution I have found so far is to run:
>
> emacsclient -c -e '(save-buffers-kill-emacs)'
>
> The problem with this is that it always displays the following two
> prompts, even if no clients were active before:
> This Emacs session has clients; exit anyway? (yes or no)
> The current server still has clients; delete them? (yes or no)

well, the call to emacsclient creates a client... ;-)

presumably the prompts will go away if you call emacsclient with the -n switch,
which instructs it not to wait but exit immediately.

> I can remove (or modify) the first prompt by modifying the 'kill-emacs-
> query-functions hooks,

there shouldn't be any need for that once you pass -n.


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Re: Gracefully save buffers and stop emacs daemon.

[A.Politz]

On Aug 22, 12:48 am, Joost Kremers <joostkrem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> amicitas wrote:
> > The closest solution I have found so far is to run:
>
> > emacsclient -c -e '(save-buffers-kill-emacs)'
>
> > The problem with this is that it always displays the following two
> > prompts, even if no clients were active before:
> > This Emacs session has clients; exit anyway? (yes or no)
> > The current server still has clients; delete them? (yes or no)
>
> well, the call to emacsclient creates a client... ;-)
>
> presumably the prompts will go away if you call emacsclient with the -n switch,
> which instructs it not to wait but exit immediately.

That does not appear to work for eval arguments. Maybe a timer can
help.

$ ec -e "(run-with-timer 0 0 'save-buffers-kill-emacs)"

-ap