Closing emacs in emacs

Question

Occasionally when using emacs in term mode I will mistakenly run emacs file instead of just opening the file. This will create a nested emacs client inside the current client. My problem is how to close the inner client only?

Answer 1

Answer

You should be able to C-z out of it, then kill it with

kill %1

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Explanation

C-z will suspend the current process, assigning it a job number and returning you to the shell.

The jobs command will show you the current jobs and their numbers. kill allows you to kill a process by its job number using the %n syntax.