Re: [RFC] Option to kill `emacs --daemon' when closing the last client frame

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: me@xenu.pl, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:42:23 -0700
> 
> I hope an example will illustrate what I mean[1]. I start with two 
> terminals open, A and B[2]. In terminal A, I run `emacs -nw foo.txt'. In 
> terminal B, I run `emacsclient -nw -c bar.txt'. Now, suppose I want to 
> stop editing foo.txt in terminal A and go back to doing something else. 
> I'd type `C-x C-c', but then my emacsclient in terminal B will close too.

No, it should say the session has client, and ask for confirmation.

You also have C-z to temporarily suspend the session on A.

> However, using the daemon configuration with ALTERNATE_EDITOR="", I 
> could run `emacsclient -nw -c ...' in each terminal. Then when I type 
> `C-x C-c' in terminal A, it only kills that client, not the daemon 
> process. I can then continue to edit in terminal B without interruption.
> 
> Of course, this isn't a bug, it's just how emacs and emacsclient work 
> together when not using `emacs --daemon'. It just turned out to be 
> inconvenient for how I use Emacs, so I've moved to using `emacs 
> --daemon' instead.

Which is exactly why we provided the daemon mode, so I see no problem
here, I see a solution for a particular class of use patterns.