Re: Check for other running emacs sessions?

[kgold <kgold@watson.ibm.com>]

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