Re: alternative to `kill-emacs-hook' for batch mode?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Oct 1, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:

> I would find such a thing very useful, e.g. when batch exporting  
> orgmode
> files, I'd like to be able to clean up the resultant temporary files.
>
> Is there currently a mechanism for running code when Emacs exists from
> batch mode?

If there is not, you can use

emacs --batch -eval '(setq this-is-batch-emacs t) ....

and test for this variable in your kill-emacs-hook function.

Or you can do:

emacs --batch -eval "do you babel stuff" -eval "do the cleanup"

Hope this gives you some ideas...


- Carsten