bug#17036: Continuation for Emacs: invoking a process on exit?

[Reuben Thomas]

On 20 March 2014 17:43, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:02:49 +0000

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
>       17036@debbugs.gnu.org
>

> I didn't discuss the command (it was Glenn Morris who suggested the name),
> but in my original bug report I said: "This would be useful for restarting

> having updated my configuration...as it would save having manually to issue a
> new 'emacs' command..." For this, a simple "exec emacs" is enough, but why

> not throw in command-line arguments too.

I'm probably missing something, because I don't see how "exec emacs"
will do what you want.

I'm sorry, I seem to have made a total hash of explaining something really simple. In effect, I want kill-emacs-and-exec, which takes a list of arguments, runs kill-emacs, and then execs the argument list.

In fact, since kill-emacs can't currently take a list, it could be extended to do so.

save-buffers-kill-emacs could be likewise extended.

Does that make sense now?