From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: save-buffers-kill-emacs from remote unix signal? Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:58:00 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1160841107.556566.18240@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161014797 5845 80.91.229.2 (16 Oct 2006 16:06:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:06:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 16 18:06:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZUyy-000808-75 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:06:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZUyx-0004bw-CB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZUth-0008PJ-Uk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZUtg-0008Mg-1v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZUte-0008MK-Uq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:00:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GZV2o-0008Lg-0b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GZUsa-0006mv-9v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:59:52 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:59:52 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:59:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <1160841107.556566.18240@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38077 Archived-At: georgeryoung@gmail.com wrote: > [GNU emacs 22.0.50.1 sparc-sun-solaris2.9 X-toolkit] > Is there some way I can use a unix signal to remotely cause > emacs to save-buffers-kill-emacs without query, > i.e. as if I had typed ^U^X^C ? If I leave emacs up in my > office with many unsaved buffers, I'd like to log in from home > and do "kill -something " and have it save all > buffers unconditionally and exit. Does this work (-something is -USR1): ;; See the Misc[ellaneous System] Events node of the Emacs Lisp manual: (global-set-key [usr1-signal] (lambda () (interactive) (save-buffers-kill-emacs t))) -- Kevin