How can i share a single org-default-notes-file between multiple instances of emacs?

How can i share a single org-default-notes-file between multiple instances of emacs?

[Eric Holbrook]

At work i typically need to have at least 2 emacs running: 1 for the
project i'm working on at the moment; 1 for notes, email, ~/.bashrc,
~/.alias, etc.

I often have more than 1 project going at a time, so i end up with 3
or 4 emacs running, sometimes more.

I'd like to be able to do 'org-capture from any emacs, and have them
all dump into the same org-default-notes-file, which i have creatively
named notes.org.

How can i do this? I thought of possibly setting a defadvice tied to
notes.org that tells all running emacs to unceremoniously revert that
buffer before doing anything else to it, and to save it when done with
it.

Has anybody already solved this problem?

tia,
Eric

Re: How can i share a single org-default-notes-file between multiple instances of emacs?

[Erik Iverson]

Note a direct answer, but I would just open up all the
buffers you use, and then either save window configurations
in registers to recall them when you switch contexts, or use
a package like Elscreen:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispScreen

Eric Holbrook wrote:
> At work i typically need to have at least 2 emacs running: 1 for the
> project i'm working on at the moment; 1 for notes, email, ~/.bashrc,
> ~/.alias, etc.
> 
> I often have more than 1 project going at a time, so i end up with 3
> or 4 emacs running, sometimes more.
> 
> I'd like to be able to do 'org-capture from any emacs, and have them
> all dump into the same org-default-notes-file, which i have creatively
> named notes.org.
> 
> How can i do this? I thought of possibly setting a defadvice tied to
> notes.org that tells all running emacs to unceremoniously revert that
> buffer before doing anything else to it, and to save it when done with
> it.
> 
> Has anybody already solved this problem?
> 
> tia,
> Eric
> 
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Re: How can i share a single org-default-notes-file between multiple instances of emacs?

[Richard Lawrence]

Eric Holbrook <eric.holbrook@smsc.com> writes:

> At work i typically need to have at least 2 emacs running: 1 for the
> project i'm working on at the moment; 1 for notes, email, ~/.bashrc,
> ~/.alias, etc.
>
> I often have more than 1 project going at a time, so i end up with 3
> or 4 emacs running, sometimes more.
>
> I'd like to be able to do 'org-capture from any emacs, and have them
> all dump into the same org-default-notes-file, which i have creatively
> named notes.org.
>
> How can i do this? I thought of possibly setting a defadvice tied to
> notes.org that tells all running emacs to unceremoniously revert that
> buffer before doing anything else to it, and to save it when done with
> it.

I really don't know if this would help you out in your particular
scenario, but have you thought about using the Emacs server[1]?  If, for
example, you start the server from within your "home" Emacs, but then
visit project files from the command line using emacsclient, those
emacsclient instances will see your notes buffer in its current state,
even if it's unsaved, and changes you make there will be visible in your
home Emacs.

I think the server requires Emacs 23, so if you have that at work, it
might be worth looking into.

Richard

[1]
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html