Emacs RC script - a script to do Emacs daemonization control

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/bash

WHO=$(whoami)
[ "$WHO" != "nferrier" ] && exec su -c "$0 $*" - nferrier

EMACS=/home/nferrier/usr/emacs/bin/emacs

SERVERNAME=elnode
SOCKETPATH=/tmp/emacs$UID/$SERVERNAME

case $1 in

  start)
	${EMACS}client -s $SOCKETPATH -e '(print (emacs-version))'
        if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then $EMACS --daemon=$SERVERNAME ; fi
	;;

  stop)
	${EMACS}client -s $SOCKETPATH -e '(print (emacs-version))'
	if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then ${EMACS}client -s $SOCKETPATH -e '(kill-emacs)' *scratch* ; fi
	;;

  status)
        if [ ! -S $SOCKETPATH ] ; then exit 1 ; fi
	${EMACS}client -s $SOCKETPATH -e '(print (emacs-version))'
	;;

esac

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