From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using only one emacs session
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 06:34:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb3a37f6-d37e-4e85-8463-cb92e3527046@r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7c63g2a5x7.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com
Hello,
On May 15, 2:48 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
>
> There are good advantages to work as you do, if really you have
> several projects going on in parallel.
>
> In my case, in general I have one emacs used for development,
so you put all your development projects inside the same emacs
sessions...
Do you use anything like session, desktop, window pacakges ?
> and two more, one for erc, and another for gnus.
>
> Since erc and gnus work with the network, sometimes there are delays
> or just time consuming processing in gnus, and since emacs lacks
> threads, it would lock the development buffers.
Ah yes you're right, when the network is down gnus locks the emacs
session where it's running, really annoying.
> So I keep several
> processes to be able to work while gnus fetch articles, etc. Besides,
> I also use cvs or cutting edge versions of emacs that may crash
> sometimes, so it's good to be able to crash one without losing the
> others.
I think I'm probably going to do the same.
>
> Now about data sharing across emacs processes, it's not really a
> problem, you can still cut-and-paste between emacs processes,
that's what I'd like to avoid
> or you
> can open the same file, and the emacs processes are careful not to
> overwrite it when you update it from another emacs.
>
> One thing that makes it easy is actually a window manager such as
> ratpoison which allows you to switch from one emacs process to another
> with a key choard. Instead of doing C-x 5 o to switch to another
> frame, I type C-t n.
>
ok
thanks
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-15 11:04 Using only one emacs session Francis Moreau
2009-05-15 11:47 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-05-15 12:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-15 13:34 ` Francis Moreau [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.7199.1242388057.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-15 12:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-15 12:53 ` Francis Moreau
2009-05-15 13:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-15 13:45 ` Francis Moreau
2009-05-15 14:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-05-15 16:50 ` Suttles, Andrew C. (GRC-DSI0)
[not found] ` <mailman.7245.1242439486.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-16 12:33 ` Francis Moreau
2009-05-18 13:14 ` Suttles, Andrew C. (GRC-DSI0)
[not found] ` <mailman.7205.1242399319.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-15 16:02 ` Francis Moreau
2009-05-15 21:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-15 14:13 ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-05-15 14:38 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-05-16 11:14 ` Vagn Johansen
2009-05-15 13:38 ` Lowell Gilbert
2009-05-15 14:00 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.7201.1242394726.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-15 13:49 ` Francis Moreau
2009-05-15 17:07 ` William Xu
[not found] ` <mailman.7216.1242408514.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-05-16 12:55 ` Francis Moreau
2009-05-16 15:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-16 21:53 ` Francis Moreau
2009-05-16 23:05 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-05-17 7:01 ` Francis Moreau
2009-05-17 15:32 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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