From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Case Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Two separate emacs running ?? Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:18:46 -0400 Message-ID: <1187363926.17619.118.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187363984 11772 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2007 15:19:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:19:44 +0000 (UTC) To: EMACS List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 17 17:19:37 2007 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 4.50) id 1IM3bo-00053j-D1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:19:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IM3bn-0005FK-Qy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:19:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IM3at-0004mO-LV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IM3as-0004lG-4V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IM3ar-0004lB-QU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.36.82]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IM3ar-00038T-Hb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 53318 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2007 15:18:32 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Subject:From:To:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=dey2wf0ejAC45NzQxtPFClzVKciAhDKfroarGmhGwSSPCx/ebCbRg79OZldx7pOhej+oMrmsvkIYhiLmXIStMufwa98xfUmkgKWVQDXOJsGUhMd9LspXZ4U9XvMBYNrGho9728wzkSTy1vOkAY5IOp5IAfz5mlb9USbN7RrU0Cs= ; Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.5?) (billlinux@rogers.com@74.104.51.86 with plain) by smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Aug 2007 15:18:31 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: ZHsmdfwVM1n0B24RiTUNnVKVWXYsWUHC35k6irIqW4n6NQrhIlcNQ2aVy3U5XdXbSA-- X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-2.fc7) X-Detected-Kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:46635 Archived-At: Hi; I am trying to figure out the best way to solve the following problem: I have a text file, c-notes.txt, which I open in a separate frame. I use it to make lots of notes to myself as a go about learning the 'C' language. I would probably like to start an elisp-notes.txt, etc. for other languages. I would like to open these text files with a completely different set of fonts, background colours, faces and minor modes from my usual emacs. I would also like to restrict those frames or instances of emacs to a few text files. Has anybody else done the same? Could you point me to an existing solution? (Yes, I looked. I couldn't find anything even close, but that could have been a search criteria problem.) Or, could you suggest a better way to go about solving this problem? I thought of constructing a /.emacs2 file and having a completely new or separate instance of emacs for these files. How would I do that so that emacs2 could find /.emacs2 and not /.emacs on start up, if it is even possible? Any "getting started" strategies or pointers would be welcome. -- Regards Bill