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0 pointsnobleach6y ago0 comments

Oddly I have an installation of Emacs on my current ArchLinux box that doesn't shut down with `C-xC-c`.... I've had to resort to `C-z, ps ax | grep emacs` to kill the process. I haven't cared enough to fix it.

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sophacles6y ago

I'd like to tangent a bit and introduce you to pgrep and pkill (available in arch via `procps-ng` pkg). They are very nice for reducing the amount of grep/sed/awk magic on the output of ps.

jaster6y ago

Assuming `M-x` still works correctly, in emacs you can explicitly run any command associated with a shortcut.

So in this case, `M-x save-buffers-kill-emacs`, or simply `M-x kill-emacs`, could have done the job.

(if this still didn't work, you could even have written "(kill-emacs)" in a buffer and ran it with `C-x C-e` :D )

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