From: kgold <kgold@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Check for other running emacs sessions?
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:49:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44350e45@kcnews01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m264ln62jz.fsf@d-128-95-226-228.dhcp4.washington.edu>
A better solution is to run only one emacs server and connect multiple
clients to it. That is, start gnuserv as part of your login script.
Use gnuclient to edit files.
The main advantage is that the client starts much faster than the server.
noreply@u.wasshington.edu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I typically have three different instances of emacs running at the
> same time. I'd like to put something in my .emacs file to check if
> another instance is running and if so, not do something
> (activate-appt). I haven't been able to find anything on it, but
> perhaps I'm not using the right terms. Is there a way to do this in
> emacs, or should I call a shell script that greps for 'emacs' in ps
> output?
>
> Thank you for any thoughts or suggestions.
>
> Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-06 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-05 23:11 Check for other running emacs sessions? noreply
2006-04-05 23:39 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2006-04-06 12:49 ` kgold [this message]
2006-04-06 14:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-04-06 16:32 ` Reiner Steib
[not found] ` <mailman.122.1144332075.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-04-06 20:23 ` noreply
2006-04-06 21:24 ` Lennart Borgman
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