On Mon 29 Apr 2019 at 10:38:40 (+0200), Pétùr wrote: > On 12/04/19 13:00, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 12 Apr 2019 at 18:04:45 (+0200), Pétùr wrote: > > > I use neomutt with emacs. > > > > > > I would like to quickly save and kill a buffer in emacs. This is to > > > avoid typing C-x C-s and, then, C-x C-c when sending an email. I want > > > one shortcut to save and kill the buffer and be back quickly in mutt to > > > send the email. > > > > > > I tried the following inside my .emacs (binded to C-q). It works but > > > kill also the window when inside a terminal. I am not going back to mutt > > > after writing inside emacs (-nw) and C-q. How can I fix that? > > > > I just put > > (global-set-key [?\C-q] "\C-x\C-s\C-x\C-c") > > into my ~/.emacs file and it works just as one would expect, both when > > emacs is running in a separate window (which disappears) or when emacs > > is running with -nw in an xterm (the xterm is unaffected). > > > > I will finish composing this email (in emacs -nw) by typing ^q and > > expect to be left in mutt, whereupon I shall press y to send it. > > Is that what you wnat? > > (Sorry for the late reply) > > Yes, this is exactly what I want to do. > > (global-set-key [?\C-q] "\C-x\C-s\C-x\C-c") works as expected when emacs > is launched as an instance. But I use it as a daemon. When emacs is > launched by "emacs --daemon" and called by emacsclient, your shortcut > will kill the buffer and I am not going back to mutt. I have to dig into > my tmp folder to retrieve the email I was trying to send. > > The same behavior occures with the code I use. (see first email). > > How can I prevent this?
Use the correct means of exiting emacs, perhaps. The key sequences I have used (^X^S^X^C, and the same keys but using ^Q shortcut) will work if the emacsclient instance is in a different frame from the emacs server. Because I use emacs -nw for composing emails¹, and the server was running in a different xterm, it all worked. OTOH if you're using emacs in its own window, then typically your email composition will jump to that same window too. In which case, typing ^X^C will shut down the emacs server itself. You should be using ^X# instead, to exit just that buffer. So for you, it would be (global-set-key [?\C-q] "\C-x\C-s\C-x#") for the definition. ^X# is meant to signal the calling program that it's completed its editing work. ¹ Why? For historical reasons. I used to type emails on a slow, unreliable laptop, with mutt running on a server. Opening an X window for emacs was also slow, so I ran it non-windowed. Cheers, David.
