Emacs goes everywhere with me [LWN.net]

Emacs goes everywhere with me

Posted Jul 22, 2005 0:33 UTC (Fri) by donio (subscriber, #94)
Parent article: OLS: A challenge for developers

My Emacs process follows me wherever I go. It can pop up an ssh
forwarded X window when an X server and sufficient network
connectivity are available or it can display in a tty when that's more
practical. This is the same Emacs instance that runs on my desktop so
all of my buffers and elisp applications (including mail, web and
various IM networks) are immediately available. I often have my Emacs
session displayed on 2 or 3 different devices at the same time,
including my phone. These Emacs sessions typically live for weeks or
months between restarts (I call those restarts Emacs reboots). I am
using the multi-tty branch of Emacs but XEmacs has this capability as
well.

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Emacs goes everywhere with me

Posted Jul 22, 2005 1:09 UTC (Fri) by phgrenet (guest, #5979) [Link]

You've got emacs on your phone? Dude, you're unsane ;-)

Emacs goes everywhere with me

Posted Jul 22, 2005 1:41 UTC (Fri) by donio (subscriber, #94) [Link]

To clarify, Emacs does not run on the phone, it displays on the
phone. But that is exactly what I want.

Emacs goes everywhere with me

Posted Jul 22, 2005 7:10 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> (I call those restarts Emacs reboots).

Emacs is a great OS.

Emacs goes everywhere with me

Posted Jul 25, 2005 1:18 UTC (Mon) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link]

Emacs is a great OS.

But it needs a decent text editor.

Emacs uptime

Posted Jul 22, 2005 9:13 UTC (Fri) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]

Now you too can brag about your emacs 'uptime':-)

http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/files/uptime.el

Emacs uptime

Posted Jul 22, 2005 9:45 UTC (Fri) by donio (subscriber, #94) [Link]

Cool. I have been using something similar:

http://www.davep.org/emacs/uptimes.el

A nice thing about that version is that it keeps track of previous
uptimes.

My current M-x uptimes shows only 2 days but the top 10 uptimes
display shows a 61 days long session and a bunch of others that lasted
over a month.

One month seems to be as long as I usually manage to go without
wanting to make a change that would be just too difficult to do
without rebooting Emacs. Upgrading a complicated elisp package that
cannot be easily unloaded for example. There is also the occasional
Emacs crash and problems with the underlying OS or hardware.

Emacs goes everywhere with me

Posted Jul 22, 2005 11:47 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]

I like to run Gnus, ERC, and ECB in separate instances, since TOTE is single-threaded.