From: JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: process sentinel and kill-emacs
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 13:53:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179867211.7512.29.camel@turtle.as.arizona.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bqgck6dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 15:25 -0400, Chong Yidong wrote:
> JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 10:52 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> >> Should a process's sentinel not run when kill-emacs is invoked with
> >> running processes? It appears the sentinel is not run (despite the
> >> prompting in save-buffer-kill-emacs: "Active processes exist; kill them
> >> and exit anyway?"). Any suggested workaround?
> >>
> >> Why is it vital to run sentinels when you are killing Emacs anyway?
> >
> > In my case, because the sentinel is writing out a comint input history
> > log, which you'd like to preserve even if the shell isn't cleanly
> > exited.
>
> Try putting something on kill-emacs-hook.
Thanks, that works (though it seems a bit inelegant, compared to calling
the process sentinel when kill-emacs kills the process).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-22 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 0:35 process sentinel and kill-emacs JD Smith
2007-05-22 14:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-22 19:02 ` JD Smith
2007-05-22 19:25 ` Chong Yidong
2007-05-22 20:53 ` JD Smith [this message]
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