some functions for safely killing and restarting the emacs daemon

ers.sh

server_ok() {
  emacsclient -a "false" -e "(boundp 'server-process)"
}

function ek {
    if [ "t" == "$(server_ok)" ]; then
        echo "Shutting down Emacs server"
        emacsclient -e '(kill-emacs)'
    else
        echo "Emacs server not running"
    fi
} # shutdown the running emacs daemon if the server-process is bound
  # and the server is in a good state

function ers {
    if [ "t" == "$(server_ok)" ]; then
        echo "Shutting down emacs server..."
        emacsclient -e '(kill-emacs)'
        echo "Restarting emacs server..."
        emacs -u $USER --daemon --eval '(server-start)'
        emacsclient --no-wait --create-frame
    else
        echo "Emacs server not running, cannot restart"
    fi
} # safely shutdown and restart the emacs daemon