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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > I've been experimenting with using `emacs --daemon' and found one part 
> > of it to be somewhat surprising. If I set `ALTERNATE_EDITOR' to the 
> > empty string and run emacsclient, it runs `emacs --daemon' and connects 
> > to it; so far so good. But when I close the Emacs client, the Emacs 
> > daemon sticks around; I'd prefer the daemon to stop as well.
>
> Just add
>
> (when (daemonp) (run-with-timer 2 2 (lambda () (unless server-clients 
> (save-buffers-kill-emacs)))))
>
> to your init file.

Even better (because it also works with emacsclient -n):

(when (daemonp) (run-with-timer 2 2 (lambda () (when (<= (length (frame-list)) 
1) (save-buffers-kill-emacs)))))