Answers to: automatically run an (emacs-)command on startup/shutdown of emacs

Answer by Jazz

Jazz — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:39:04 -0400

Apparently, a way to solve this is to rebind C-c C-x (default close emacs keyboard shortcut) to another function. Upon further research, I found the .emacs of Elliot Glaysher, who bound a more intelligent function to C-c C-x:

(defun intelligent-close ()
  (interactive)
  (org-mobile-push) ;; <== MOBILE ==
  (if (eq (car (visible-frame-list)) (selected-frame))
      (if (> (length (visible-frame-list)) 1)
          (delete-frame (selected-frame))
        (save-buffers-kill-emacs))
    (delete-frame (selected-frame)))
)
(global-set-key "C-xC-c" 'intelligent-close)

As you can see, I simply added org-mobile-push to the function. Works like a charm. :)

I'd be very interested in further solutions for this problem!

Comment by Jazz on Ron's answer

Jazz — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:25:59 -0400

This is a good idea, but is dependend on the fact that the commands are executable from outside of emacs. I updated my question to clarify that org-mobile-push and org-mobile-pull must be run from within emacs.

Answer by Ron

Ron — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:00:33 -0400

Well, I don't have any experience with that, however, and this may or may not work, but my idea would be to setup a cron job to run a bash script that would look and see if emacs is open, mark the time stamp and then compare it to when emacs closes, and if it's more than X time, do Y. If it's less than X time, do Z.

Now this idea is strictly conceptual, but something like that may (or may not) work. I wish I had a more concrete idea for you with code, but alas, I do not.