How to close a emacsclient gui frame without killing the server

emacs emacsclient
AdrieanKhisbe picture AdrieanKhisbe · Sep 28, 2013 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

How do you close an emacsclient frame without killing the server/daemon?

Doing C-x C-c or C-x 5 0 in the gui will exit both frame and server (and other clients), while this just quit the current frame when done from terminal.

(Ps: My emacs version is 24.2,gtk. I've tried without init-file to see if it was coming from my config, but results were the same)

Answer

Dolda2000 picture Dolda2000 · Sep 28, 2013

From the minibuffer, when emacsclient starts:

When done with a buffer, type C-x #

Related questions

Using Emacs server and emacsclient on other machines as other users

I know that after I call (start-server) inside an existing Emacs session I can then use emacsclient -c (on the same computer) to create new frames that connect into that server, so that each new frame created by emacsclient has …

Read More
How do I make Git use the editor of my choice for commits?

I would prefer to write my commit messages in Vim, but it is opening them in Emacs. How do I configure Git to always use Vim? Note that I want to do this globally, not just for a single project.

Read More
Differences between Emacs and Vim

Without getting into a religious argument about why one is better than the other, what are the practical differences between Emacs and Vim? I'm looking to learn one or the other, but I realize the learning curve for each is …

Read More