force kill a buffer?

Question

I have a buffer (belonging to ein mode that got into a bad state) that throws an elisp error every time I try to kill it (using ibuffer, M-x kill-this-buffer, etc.)

Backtrace suggests that the buffer is trying to run some elisp that is failing. Is it possible to just kill that buffer without running any hooks?

maybe you can try to set kill-buffer-hook, which is buffer-local to nil. Don't know if this will solve the problem. — AltruisticDelay, Jun 30 '20 at 10:44

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-01T10:48:37.553

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I think you have to write a tiny bit of Lisp. Type the following into M-: (M-x eval-expression). You don't need line breaks, they're just for readability.

(with-current-buffer "name of buffer"
  (let (kill-buffer-hook kill-buffer-query-functions)
    (kill-buffer)))

edited Jul 01 '20 at 10:48

answered Jun 30 '20 at 10:34

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

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This unfortunately doesn't work in my case: `ein:notebook-kill-buffer-query` hook runs and causes an error down the road. – Leo Alekseyev Jul 01 '20 at 09:52
@LeoAlekseyev I think I see the problem: the hooks are local, and `kill-buffer` implicitly switches to the buffer that it's about to be killed. My new version should work. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jul 01 '20 at 10:49

force kill a buffer?

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