From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: emacs server variable server-name ... not available Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:34:54 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zlhikj8h.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232667319 12806 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2009 23:35:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:35:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 00:36:32 2009 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 1LQ967-0001NJ-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:36:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQ94p-00017C-PT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:35:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQ94k-00016W-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQ94i-000161-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:35:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53148 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQ94i-00015y-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52440 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQ94h-0005fN-Rp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LQ94h-00040L-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:35:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zSnVX58x/ZXNZEF9AH+UpOXiI7A= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:108117 Archived-At: [Note sorry if this is a double bubble... My initial post got away from me before I had finished it... I attempted cancelling it but it may not have worked... here is the complete message] I've only been using emacsclient a short while. I thought maybe I'd like to try having two servers. One with gnus running and another for some perl scripting I'm working on. Reading parts of the documentation I see: (info "(emacs)Emacs Server") You can run multiple Emacs servers on the same machine by giving each one a unique "server name", using the variable `server-name'. For example, `M-x set-variable server-name foo ' sets the server name to `foo'. The `emacsclient' program can specify a server by name, using the `-s' option (*note emacsclient Options::). In a recent cvs of emacs-23, when I attempt to set that variable as described I get a comment: M-x set-variable server-name [no-match] Emacs knows nothing about this variable... is there some particular package that must be loaded for this variable to be recognized?