Re: graceful shutdown of non-interactive Elisp program

[Joost Kremers]

On Sat, Jun 13 2020, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> I'm trying to make a Elisp program that is run in a 
> non-interactive mode,
> i.e. essentially as `emacs --batch --load myfile.el'. A normal 
> way to
> shutdown terminal programs is with C-c, which is expected to be 
> "graceful"
> shutdown, e.g. the program still has a chance to save files etc.
>
> However, with Elisp I'm not sure how to achieve that except for 
> constantly
> modifying `kill-emacs-hook', which would be a nightmare from 
> coding
> perspective.

What do you mean "constantly modifying `kill-emacs-hook'"? You 
just add a function to it when your program starts and if it's 
shut down before Emacs is killed, you remove the function again. 
Or leave it, if it doesn't do any harm.



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