From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: *scratch* buffer Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:42:14 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87ved6rart.fsf@jurta.org> References: <93CF6922-CA47-4100-9644-D2BC7C182FAF@gmail.com> <33953.128.165.123.18.1182992804.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183135886 4887 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2007 16:51:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david.reitter@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 29 18:51:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I4Jgq-0003yQ-Hh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:51:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4Jgp-0003ni-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:51:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4Jgh-0003iJ-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:51:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4Jgf-0003h1-Tv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:51:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4Jgf-0003gs-KQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I4Jgf-0007QR-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I4Jgc-000PH2-8G; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:51:10 +0300 In-Reply-To: <33953.128.165.123.18.1182992804.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Davis Herring's message of "Wed\, 27 Jun 2007 18\:06\:44 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: dd5701c86360acb8383b46d8fd27d5ab X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1187 [June 28 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:74035 Archived-At: > I realize that Mac does not believe in running two copies of the same > application (process), but taking that to be a Bad Assumption, I ask: how > does this deal in any even moderately graceful way with simultaneous > Emacses? We have a persistent state, automatically saved, with no name, > that is surely to conflict with other *scratch*es. In the case of saving the scratch buffer in a file like ~/.emacs.d/scratch the standard Emacs file locking mechanism takes care of this. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/