Re: More emacs instances

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

Richard Riley wrote:
> Andrea Crotti writes:
>
>> I was thinking that for example I could load a different instance of
>> Emacs for gnus (and maybe other chatting programs).
...
>> And also how should I handle the different configuration?

> 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

Hmm. I couldn't get that to work exactly as I wanted it.

What I have is this, based on those suggestions:
,----[ .emacs.el ]
|
| (defvar starting-normally (not (member "-gnus" command-line-args)))
| 
| (add-to-list
|  'command-switch-alist
|  '("gnus" . (lambda (&rest ignore)
| 
|               ;; Start Gnus when Emacs starts
|               (add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook 'gnus t)
|               ;; Exit Emacs after quitting Gnus
|               (add-hook 'gnus-after-exiting-gnus-hook
|                         'save-buffers-kill-emacs)
|             )
| ))
| 
| ;; ... snippage ...
|
| (if starting-normally
|     (progn
|       ;; "Expensive requires / loads here that are not used with gnus
|       (require 'config-tramp)
|       ;; etc.
|
|     )
| )
|
`----

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