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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: server-start and server-name doesn't seem to work
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:32:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0910161932s63dc4aeckc0eb3ebb6e421ae9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874opygau8.fsf@newsguy.com>

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 01:47, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> 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 <RET> server-name <RET> foo <RET>'
>   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.

    Juanma




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-17  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-16 18:07 server-start and server-name doesn't seem to work Harry Putnam
2009-10-16 18:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-10-16 18:49   ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-16 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-16 23:47   ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-17  2:12     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-17  5:41       ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-17  2:32     ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2009-10-17  5:44       ` Harry Putnam

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