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

Question

I use MobileOrg to synchronize my emacs org-files with my mobile. For correct synchronization, mobile-org requires me to run org-mobile-push and org-mobile-pull from within emacs.

I can automatically run org-mobile-pull on startup by inserting

(org-mobile-pull)

into my .emacs file, but how do I automatically run an emacs command when closing emacs?

Accepted Answer

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!

Answer 2

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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.

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answered 18 Apr '11, 09:00

Ron ♦
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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.

(18 Apr '11, 09:25) Jazz ♦

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