Re: How can i share a single org-default-notes-file between multiple instances of emacs?

From: Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
To: Eric Holbrook <eric.holbrook@smsc.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can i share a single org-default-notes-file between multiple instances of emacs?
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:08:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0A55A9.8020605@ccbr.umn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin5LWs=xpwGMzYB7AGxyGCvxt9LzYRpM-Gi_MDd@mail.gmail.com>

Note a direct answer, but I would just open up all the
buffers you use, and then either save window configurations
in registers to recall them when you switch contexts, or use
a package like Elscreen:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispScreen

Eric Holbrook wrote:
> At work i typically need to have at least 2 emacs running: 1 for the
> project i'm working on at the moment; 1 for notes, email, ~/.bashrc,
> ~/.alias, etc.
> 
> I often have more than 1 project going at a time, so i end up with 3
> or 4 emacs running, sometimes more.
> 
> I'd like to be able to do 'org-capture from any emacs, and have them
> all dump into the same org-default-notes-file, which i have creatively
> named notes.org.
> 
> How can i do this? I thought of possibly setting a defadvice tied to
> notes.org that tells all running emacs to unceremoniously revert that
> buffer before doing anything else to it, and to save it when done with
> it.
> 
> Has anybody already solved this problem?
> 
> tia,
> Eric
> 
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