From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [Q] Several emacs instances / dired and "derived" buffers Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:15:32 -0400 Organization: Looking for work Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085679812 31282 80.91.224.253 (27 May 2004 17:43:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:43:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 27 19:43:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BTOuW-0002EO-00 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 19:43:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BTNbI-00068A-9T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 May 2004 12:19:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!nntp.giganews.com.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:15:32 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.26.140 Original-X-Trace: sv3-uRvsZoKLLPKGneaDgkatMfhJbaBNlktGk5M5XVotkr8O5RPfBtmBWLK6tixRT4is6rgT34zetg5Upyt!GNSCgODGiMWWXwQ01/HjpHbTYyZ+NJ2yIM5p4x8Ow/HDNAEbvyALt7T2ox7BrL6TbXfIwQ4ZZwwX!OoBCul4x7EQ= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123525 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18817 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18817 In article , "Ames Andreas (MPA/DF)" wrote: > Does it make sense to have sevaral instances of emacs running? How > can I start emacs with a separate startup file (and not my default > .emacs)? How can I make sure that gnuclient and friends finds only > my emacs-for-editing instance? Are there other potential problems > I do not recognise yet? You can use the -q option to prevent emacs from reading the default .emacs file, and -l filename to make it load a specific file. So your gnus instance could be started up with something like: emacs -q -l ~/.gnus.elc Just make sure that only your init file for the emacs-for-editing instance executes (gnuserve) to start up the server for gnuclient. You'll probably want the init files to give the windows distinct title bars. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***