Re: Understanding the behaviour of Emacs and Emacs Client

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 3:29 AM Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> wrote:
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> And if Yes then what is the official way to terminate the residual
> >> Emacs process in case (2) above?
> >
> > The official way is to type "M-x kill-emacs RET".  (But in general, if
> > you use the "client" icon, the assumption is that you don't want to do
> > that.  rather, leave the Emacs process running and use the client icon
> > to open a new frame next time you want to do something in Emacs --
> > this way, you keep all the history and the buffers inside the
> > session, and the startup will be faster.)
>
> Thanks for the explanation, Eli. The only time I would want to do that
> is when I am shutting down or rebooting the system for some reason. I
> want to cleanly exit and save all work. "M-x kill-emacs RET" certainly
> helps.
>
> Customization var like "kill-emacs-with-last-frame" could be a good
> idea. Or "C-x C-c" on last frame may be used to default to this
> behaviour; this will prevent any lost work due to reboot or
> shutdown. Because the daemon is invisible after last frame. Just an
> idea. "C-x 5 0" remains the same.

I use the following:

  emacsclient --eval "(save-some-buffers t)" --eval "(kill-emacs)"

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Suvayu

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