From: Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann@gmail.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 55599@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55599: save-buffers-kill-emacs doesn't give a visible prompt when called from command line
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 02:29:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHjfyZ0Fd6xvxn2zxqa20_rhBS=GsBbJJCO2eQfd+3j4coSMWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r14jo02m.fsf@gmx.de>
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I don't want to unconditionally save buffers; I want to conditionally save
them. (Actually, I wouldn't mind if it didn't save the buffers at all; when
I restart emacs, it finds the ".#" files, and that suffices.)
There's a more general problem here (although you might decide it's too
much trouble to fix) -- it seems that when "emacsclient -e" is used, any
prompts go to the non-existent screen rather than to the terminal. (e.g.,
yes-or-n-p's prompt).
Also, save-buffers-kill-emacs does two things: (conditionally) saves the
buffers and deletes the ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop.lock file. On the other
hand, the lower level kill-emacs doesn't delete the lock file (and the
response to bug 55560 is that that's a deliberate design decision). So,
there's no way of doing from the command line
"kill-emacs-and-remove-lock-file", it seems.
On Tue, 24 May 2022 at 00:34, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
wrote:
> Peter Ludemann <peter.ludemann@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> > When I try to kill an emacs server from the command line by:
> > emacsclient -e '(save-buffers-kill-emacs)'
> > nothing appears to happen if there are any unsaved buffers.
> >
> > I presume that this is because the prompt goes to the usual place (below
> > the mode line in the screen), which of course isn't visible from the
> > command line because there isn't any screen when using "emacsclient -e".
> >
> > This is a follow-up to bug 55560, where it was suggested that kill-emacs
> is
> > inappropriate and instead I should use save-buffers-kill-emacs.
>
> There is an optional ARG which lets Emacs silently save all file-visiting
> buffers without asking. So you must call
>
> emacsclient -e '(save-buffers-kill-emacs t)'
>
> Best regards, Michael.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-24 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-23 19:56 bug#55599: save-buffers-kill-emacs doesn't give a visible prompt when called from command line Peter Ludemann
2022-05-24 7:34 ` Michael Albinus
2022-05-24 9:29 ` Peter Ludemann [this message]
2022-05-24 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-28 18:27 ` Peter Ludemann
2022-05-28 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-28 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-31 19:34 ` Peter Ludemann
2022-06-01 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-01 17:54 ` Peter Ludemann
2022-06-01 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-01 20:04 ` Peter Ludemann
2023-09-13 1:43 ` Stefan Kangas
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