Re: More emacs instances

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

> I was thinking that for example I could load a different instance of
> Emacs for gnus (and maybe other chatting programs).
>
> Often they're slow (gnus) and I want to keep them open all the time, so
> my life could be also easier if they're separated.
>
> But is also nice to be able to kill and yank from one instance to the
> other one, how is that handled with different instances (for example on
> osx 10.6).
>
> And also how should I handle the different configuration?
> If I use autoloads I could as well use the same conf, maybe using a
> different desktop file which keeps open the gnus buffers and everything
> I need...
> Anyone already doing it?
>

I use different command line options to determine how the init
functions. More details can be found here :-

http://edward.oconnor.cx/2010/08/standalone-gnus

so, for example, in my (tmux hosted) "emacs -nw" that I keep my email
and erc open in, there is no emacs server started thus keeping it
separate from my normal "work" emacs..