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[Q] Several emacs instances / dired and "derived" buffers
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Ames Andreas (MPA/DF) |
Subject: |
[Q] Several emacs instances / dired and "derived" buffers |
Date: |
Thu, 27 May 2004 12:22:09 +0200 |
Hi all,
I've got two questions for which I'd welcome your experienced advice.
1) I use emacs not only for editing but also as calendar, mua etc (I
think this is not extraordinary around here). From time to time
emacs freezes and I'm suspecting gnus (I use procmail and I'm not
sure I have the locking right; furthermore I'm using nnimap with an
MS Exchange which seems sometimes to be unreachable). It is not
enough of a problem for me to try to find the error(s) but I'm
thinking of separating the non-editing tasks of my emacs into its
own emacs instance/process. That would also be an opportunity to
make my .emacs more lightweight and faster (because I could do
without starting calendar etc.).
Does it make sense to have sevaral instances of emacs running? How
can I start emacs with a separate startup file (and not my default
.emacs)? How can I make sure that gnuclient and friends finds only
my emacs-for-editing instance? Are there other potential problems
I do not recognise yet?
2) I use separate filesystem directories for separate programming (and
other) projects (surprise, surprise). When I begin working on one
project, I usually dired its toplevel directory and then I open
buffers below that one. When I switch to another project I oftenly
want to close all buffers related to the first project. This is
even a necessity when the project is in a directory that I have
mounted from a mobile computer because I want/must to unmount when
I stop working.
Currently I just close all these buffers manually. I'm wondering
if there isn't someone who has already written a command that
closes all buffers which are visiting files below a given
directory.
TIA,
andreas
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