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AdrieanKhisbe
AdrieanKhisbe

Reputation: 4058

How to close a emacsclient gui frame without killing the server

How do you close an emacsclient frame without killing the server/daemon?

Doing C-x C-c or C-x 5 0 in the gui will exit both frame and server (and other clients), while this just quit the current frame when done from terminal.

(Ps: My emacs version is 24.2,gtk. I've tried without init-file to see if it was coming from my config, but results were the same)

Upvotes: 16

Views: 11849

Answers (6)

Jiacai Liu
Jiacai Liu

Reputation: 2743

In modern version GNU Emacs(27+), it says

When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0

Upvotes: 1

Dolda2000
Dolda2000

Reputation: 25855

From the minibuffer, when emacsclient starts:

When done with a buffer, type C-x #

Upvotes: 12

SamB
SamB

Reputation: 9224

Because you ran (server-start) from an existing frame, that frame is not an emacsclient frame, and closing the last such frame evidently gets the same treatment as C-x C-c: it will exit Emacs.

If you used emacs --daemon, possibly using the ALTERNATE_EDITOR='' trick, you would not have this problem; you could just use emacsclient -n -c to open a GUI frame, and after closing it the daemon would just sit around waiting for you to open a new frame, whether graphical or terminal-based.

Upvotes: 2

Lei
Lei

Reputation: 318

I am using both Debian with i3, and OSX. I usually exit emacsclient GUI frame by the window manager's close window shortcut. For example, in OSX, I use "Command + w" to close the client GUI frame without killing the server, and in i3, I use "Super + Shift + q" (the default close window by i3) to exit the client frame.

Upvotes: 1

Craig Waddington
Craig Waddington

Reputation: 448

I think the key point here is you need to start the server in daemon mode. If the server runs in an existing emacs process - for instance if you have (server-start) in your init file - the server dies with the emacs process.

There are a couple of ways of starting the server in daemon mode:

  • call emacs with the --daemon command line option
  • call emacsclient with the --alternate-editor="" command line option, which will in effect run emacs --daemon for you then attempt to connect to it

Once you have the server in daemon mode, you should be able to close any frames and the daemon will continue to sit and wait for further connections.

Upvotes: 6

Bleeding Fingers
Bleeding Fingers

Reputation: 7129

Starting the emacsclient with -n/--no-wait flag will:

Don't wait for the server to return

You won't need to close the client in that case.

And if you have to a close emacsclient just kill the buffer the server will remain intact.

Upvotes: 4

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