From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: server-start and server-name doesn't seem to work Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:44:33 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87vdieefr2.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87aazrp607.fsf@newsguy.com> <874opygau8.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255758332 2806 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2009 05:45:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:45:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 17 07:45:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mz26U-0001hU-1G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:45:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mz26T-0004Hh-Bl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mz26M-0004HU-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mz26H-0004Gw-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50749 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mz26H-0004Gr-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58496) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mz26G-00053s-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mz26C-0001ey-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:45:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ABtkwYRsnhOdwGE1HxPH/WQb4P0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116195 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 01:47, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> The manual is pretty clear in >> saying it is something I should be able to do: > > Not so clear, apparently. > >>      You can run multiple Emacs servers on the same machine by giving >>   each one a unique "server name", using the variable `server-name'. >>   For example, `M-x set-variable server-name foo ' >>   sets the server name to `foo'.  The `emacsclient' program can >>   specify a server by name, using the `-s' option (*note emacsclient >>   Options::). > > That means that you can have several simultaneous instances of Emacs, > each one running its own server (with different server-name's of > course), and emacsclient can be used to connect with any of them. The `something' I was talking about was the ability to acquire a named server, so ... I meant in the sense that you can have a named server... I wasn't concerned with multiple servers. Stefan has cleared up how its done... thanks