From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Independent differently-configured instances running concurrently Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:18:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87ioptvvhb.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398730758 20033 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2014 00:19:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:19:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Hans BKK Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 29 02:19:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WevlP-0000RJ-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 02:19:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WevlO-0004U9-SF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:19:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52773) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wevl5-0004TW-SE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wevkx-0008HU-Li for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:18:51 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.8]:47988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wevkx-0008Fl-Dt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail03.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.16]) by outbound-smtp02.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9844A9892B for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:17:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 10066 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2014 00:18:41 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.76.151.162]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 29 Apr 2014 00:18:40 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Hans BKK on Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:39:13 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97437 Archived-At: Hans BKK writes: > I'm investigating how to run completely separate instances of emacs concurrently. > > For example, > > * highly customized but relatively stable "production" setup used for exploring source-code, docs, creating my own self-doc-set > > * basically unmodified "base" setup for learning vanilla and comparison purposes > > * scratch-experimental setup for testing packages, comparing their mods to vanilla, etc The way you suggest should work. Using multiple accounts should work too. Another way is to use different computers. In the past I've worked at companies that have servers running on various types of Unix. Often I'd setup Emacs on my corporate MS Windows PC. I used it on the Unix machines too via ssh or telnet. On the Windows machine I put all my customizations, but I didn't customize on the Unix machines. I did that out of laziness, but it was useful because it got me accustomed to how default Emacs worked and made me realize which customizations were really useful. All approaches make it tricky to use emacsclient, but you can learn that later. Emacs server/client is very useful and definitely worth setting up. And I still think your learning process is too complicated :) BR, Robert Thorpe