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Re: Using only one emacs session
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Francis Moreau |
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Re: Using only one emacs session |
Date: |
Fri, 15 May 2009 06:34:19 -0700 (PDT) |
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Hello,
On May 15, 2:48 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
>
> There are good advantages to work as you do, if really you have
> several projects going on in parallel.
>
> In my case, in general I have one emacs used for development,
so you put all your development projects inside the same emacs
sessions...
Do you use anything like session, desktop, window pacakges ?
> and two more, one for erc, and another for gnus.
>
> Since erc and gnus work with the network, sometimes there are delays
> or just time consuming processing in gnus, and since emacs lacks
> threads, it would lock the development buffers.
Ah yes you're right, when the network is down gnus locks the emacs
session where it's running, really annoying.
> So I keep several
> processes to be able to work while gnus fetch articles, etc. Besides,
> I also use cvs or cutting edge versions of emacs that may crash
> sometimes, so it's good to be able to crash one without losing the
> others.
I think I'm probably going to do the same.
>
> Now about data sharing across emacs processes, it's not really a
> problem, you can still cut-and-paste between emacs processes,
that's what I'd like to avoid
> or you
> can open the same file, and the emacs processes are careful not to
> overwrite it when you update it from another emacs.
>
> One thing that makes it easy is actually a window manager such as
> ratpoison which allows you to switch from one emacs process to another
> with a key choard. Instead of doing C-x 5 o to switch to another
> frame, I type C-t n.
>
ok
thanks
- Using only one emacs session, Francis Moreau, 2009/05/15
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