Re: Graceful Gnus exit on Emacs exit

[Sergey Organov]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Gnus v5.31 doesn't seem to install any hooks at Emacs exit that is 
>> unfortunate.
>>
>> After some digging I came up with the following code in my .gnus.el to
>> gracefully exit Gnus on Emacs exit:
>>
>> (defun gnus-exit ()
>>   "Exit gnus without confirmation and return 't"
>>   (let ((noninteractive 't)
>>         (gnus-expert-user 't)
>>         (gnus-interactive-exit 'quiet))
>>     (gnus-group-exit) 't))
>>
>> (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook 'gnus-exit)
>>
>> I worry why it ended up being that complex? Is there better way?
>
> I wouldn't actually consider that to be very complex! At least not
> compared to the elisp customizations I end up writing :)

I just hoped for a "Graceful shutdown on Emacs exit" somewhere
among million Gnus knobs.

>
> The non-complex version would be:
>
> (add-hook 'hill-emacs-hook #'gnus-group-exit)

Yeah, that's what I thought as well.

>
> Though you'd have to deal with the prompts.

... and that's where the actual journey started!

>
> No, I don't think there's a better way.

Sigh... Thanks!

-- Sergey