Re: remember all the little quits before you do the big quit :)

[hw <hw@adminart.net>]

Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu 23 Aug 2018, Hikaru Ichijyo wrote:
>
>> It would be nice if Emacs would give options on shutdown to terminate
>> Lisp applications in the same fashion it checks for unsaved buffers and
>> subordinate Unix processes.  I know there are probably ways people have
>> hacked together solutions for this in their ~/.emacs files (and I'd love
>> to see them, if anybody wants to post snippets), but it just seems like
>> if Emacs is taking the effort to warn me of things I need to take care
>> of before shutdown, it shouldn't be forgetting about its own running
>> applications just because they're not OS processes.
>
> I have this snippet in .gnus to do that:
>
>   (defun ajm-kill-emacs-exit-gnus ()
>     (when (gnus-alive-p)
>       (with-current-buffer (get-buffer "*Group*")
>         (let ((gnus-expert-user t)
>               (gnus-interactive-exit 'quiet))
>           (gnus-group-exit)))))
>   (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook #'ajm-kill-emacs-exit-gnus))

Awesome!  What is the minimum Emacs version for this to work?  I asked
for something like this a couple years ago and was told it's impossible.