Shutdown Emacs Server

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#!/bin/bash

# Shamelessly taken from http://mjwall.com/blog/2013/10/04/how-i-use-emacs/

# simple script to shutdown the running Emacs daemon

# emacsclient options for reference
# -a Alternate editor, runs bin/false in this case
# -e eval the script

# If the server-process is bound and the server is in a good state, then kill
# the server

server_ok() {
  emacsclient -a "false" -e "(boundp 'server-process)"
}

if [ "t" == "$(server_ok)" ]; then
  echo "Shutting down Emacs server"
  # wasn't removing emacs from ALT-TAB on mac
  # emacsclient -e "(server-force-delete)"
  emacsclient -e '(kill-emacs)'
else
  echo "Emacs server not running"
fi