help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: More emacs instances


From: Robert Marshall
Subject: Re: More emacs instances
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:24:36 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

> 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?
> 
> You can write a different init file called for example
> my-special-init-file.el, put what you want in it and start emacs like
> that:
> 
> emacs -Q -l my-special-init-file.el
> 

Or, to keep your .emacs together, I use -name off the command line and
then set a variable in .emacs according to its value (or not!)

Robert
-- 
La grenouille songe..dans son château d'eau
Links and things http://rmstar.blogspot.com/


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]