From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: More emacs instances Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:32:45 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <87wrrun3xe.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281699360 4468 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2010 11:36:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:36:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 13:35:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjsYE-0006uZ-R3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:35:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41113 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjsYD-0007XS-Ub for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:35:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44632 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjsXl-0007Wg-BL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjsXg-0008Kq-5O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39286) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjsXg-0008Ki-02 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:35:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjsXc-0006e9-69 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:35:16 +0200 Original-Received: from 173.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:35:16 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 173.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:35:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:va4rziZNlletdqHbQXwAx70uylM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74600 Archived-At: Andrea Crotti writes: > I was thinking that for example I could load a different instance of > Emacs for gnus (and maybe other chatting programs). > > Often they're slow (gnus) and I want to keep them open all the time, so > my life could be also easier if they're separated. > > But is also nice to be able to kill and yank from one instance to the > other one, how is that handled with different instances (for example on > osx 10.6). > > And also how should I handle the different configuration? > If I use autoloads I could as well use the same conf, maybe using a > different desktop file which keeps open the gnus buffers and everything > I need... > Anyone already doing it? You can write a different init file called for example my-special-init-file.el, put what you want in it and start emacs like that: emacs -Q -l my-special-init-file.el -- Thierry Volpiatto Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997