From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bernardo Bacic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient uses obsolete "server" file on Windows Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:42:27 +1000 Message-ID: <48535A43.2020901@pobox.com> References: <484ACDD0.80209@resiak.org> <484BFAE3.1000105@resiak.org> <4850E139.6060105@resiak.org> Reply-To: bernardo.bacic@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213422287 16517 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 05:44:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 14 07:45:30 2008 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 1K7OZr-0003PK-1E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:45:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33092 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7OZ3-00025k-7b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7OYk-00024M-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7OYh-00022L-SZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40569 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7OYh-00022H-NX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:50774 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K7OYY-0004vU-Qc; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A26C269D; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:44:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from PIV2.8 (202.7.251.96.dynamic.rev.aanet.com.au [202.7.251.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 093BA269C; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:43:58 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E5D130A8-39D4-11DD-B890-B8BFEAD4C077-14340206!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:54814 Archived-At: it was a dark and stormy night when Juanma Barranquero said, On 06/13/2008 04:20 AM: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 20:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> On Windows, this can only happen if another instance of Emacs is >> launched. How probable is that? > > I don't know. On my computer it is very likely, but I go to pains to > make sure every instance uses a different server-name, so there are no > conflicts. > > For Windows users not involved in Emacs development, I'd say it is unlikely. > Haven't closely followed the thread, but in my case there are usually two independent instances of Emacs launched, one for code only, the other for "organisational stuff" - plans, todo lists, calendar, etc. They are launched in separate directories so the corresponding .emacs.desktop files keep track of different settings. Either instance can go in and out of existence although most of the time both are running and because of the slack approach both start the 'server'. -- Rgds, Bernardo