2014-09-17 9:56 GMT+02:00 Paul Rudin <p...@rudin.co.uk>: > Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popin...@supelec.fr> writes: > > > What is the purpose of opening a second instance of emacs ? > > I precisely tend to avoid it. > > There are situations where it can be useful - e.g. using emacs as > a news or mail client where the whole process can block for a few > seconds. > > Yes seconds or even much more. This is the reason I don't use Emacs to read my mail/news anymore :-/
-- Fabrice
