Re: emacs daemon.. but quietly

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:24:44PM +0100, Gary . wrote:
> Is there any way to stop emacs, run with --daemon, printing out
> details about all of the config files it is loading? At the moment I
> see

If I understand you correctly, you want to suppress stdout/stderr output
of emacs --daemon?

You might just redirect that to /dev/null like so:

  emacs --daemon > /dev/null 2>&1

(or did I misunderstand you completely?)

>   ("emacs" "--quiet")
>   Loading charset...
>   Loading charset...done
> (etc.) which is ugly since I want to start the server, when
> appropriate, when I start my login shell by doing something like
> 
>   function serverExists {
>     TMPDIR=${TMPDIR-/tmp};
>     TMPFILE="${TMPDIR}/ps-output.$$";
> 
>     ps > ${TMPFILE}
>     grep -q 'emacs-X11' ${TMPFILE}
>     SERVER_STARTED=$?;
>     rm ${TMPFILE}
> 
>     return $SERVER_STARTED;
>   }
> 
>   if serverExists ; then
>    export EMACS_SERVER="emacs already started"
>   else
>    emacs --daemon --quiet
>    export EMACS_SERVER="emacs started here"
>   fi
>   echo $EMACS_SERVER
> 
> in my .bashrc.

Hm. I don't quite understand this part. Besides, it seems a roundabout
way. What are you trying to achieve?

Regards
- -- tomás
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