From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: More emacs instances Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:45:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281703579 1163 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2010 12:46:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:46:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 14:46:18 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjteL-0006sj-Ki for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:46:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42955 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjteK-0006qq-LE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54512 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ojtdu-0006ql-S3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:45:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojtdt-0002KO-P7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38489) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojtdt-0002KJ-IQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:45:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojtds-0006bE-5g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:45:48 +0200 Original-Received: from ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net ([213.160.40.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:45:48 +0200 Original-Received: from help-gnu-emacs by ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:45:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (cygwin) X-No-Archive: Yes X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-08-27 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74602 Archived-At: 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