Re: emacs daemon.. but quietly

[Andre Ramaciotti]

"Gary ." <emacs@garydjones.name> writes:

> 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
>   ("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.
>
> Any ideas, anyone?

You could redirect the output of the command to /dev/null (if you're
using Linux or similar).