From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: accidentally started gnus
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:10:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d46e43op.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyzw12p0.fsf@uwo.ca>
Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> wrote:
> To avoid accidentally starting Gnus a second time, I use the following
> code, which requires that you have the lockfile program in your path.
> After a crash, the lock file will still exist, in which case you can
> steal the lock.
> It's amazing how often this has saved me from having two copies of Gnus
> running!
> (add-hook 'gnus-before-startup-hook 'jdc-gnus-lock)
> (defun jdc-gnus-lock ()
> [...]
That sounds rather interesting. Any chance this could be in-
tegrated into the main source?
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-29 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <op.uywjaz0jq40fbn@balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de>
2009-08-19 16:37 ` jidanni
2009-08-25 12:46 ` Dan Christensen
2009-08-29 23:10 ` Tim Landscheidt [this message]
2009-08-30 5:17 ` Graham Murray
2009-08-30 9:01 ` lock mechanism like in desktop.el (was: accidentally started gnus) Reiner Steib
2009-08-30 19:58 ` lock mechanism like in desktop.el Stefan Monnier
2009-08-18 21:02 accidentally started gnus jidanni
2009-08-20 21:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-08-21 11:22 ` jidanni
2009-08-21 19:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-08-21 19:23 ` Adam Sjøgren
2009-08-21 19:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
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