From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme From: "rob pike" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:30:22 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6a4c4338-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I open two windows in rio. Then I start Acme in both the windows. Now, if I > open a file in one Acme instance, it opens the file in both the instances. > > Is this a problem? Or am I missing something? Both Acmes are using the same plumber, so both receive the plumbing messages Acme uses to search for things, and so both open the file. If you don't want this, there are many ways to deal with it. The simplest might be to run the plumber again, before acme, in the window you want to isolate: plumber acme -rob