Re: More emacs instances

[Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>]

Andrea Crotti wrote:

> I was thinking that for example I could load a different instance of
> Emacs for gnus (and maybe other chatting programs).
(snip)
> Anyone already doing it?

I kind of have to. The "geben" debugger keeps ****ing on my emacs
instance if I don't (it's pretty painful to not be able to close a
buffer because some required function is suddenly undefined...).

I haven't done anything special yet - just start my normal (or as RR put
it "work" emacs) instance and then any others specifically as single
instances ('/usr/bin/emacs --no-desktop') as needed. I keep thinking I
should maintain different startup files, because loading unnecessary
config files just to run gnus, for example, makes it pretty slow to
start up, but my use cases aren't that defined yet - the only ones
really being geben and, occasionally, gnus, which I normally happily run
in my normal instance - and then I think about how painful it can be to
maintain *one* configuration and I am put off the idea :-) Also, a part
of me hates doing it at all, because I like having everything in one
place, that was the main reason I switched to emacs in the first place.

-- 
Gary
GNU Emacs 23.2.1
emacsclient 23.2
1.7.4(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-07 11:02 Cygwin