Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Complexity of computing w/ Emacs

[Trent Buck]

address@hidden (Andrew J. Korty) writes:
>> Emacs can subsume the functionality of all these apps in a single
>> instance. That's one button on task bar. But I hesitate to embark on this
>> approach because I am absolutely terrified that I'll click that one button
>> and drown in a sea of buffers.
>
> I know the same is true for X and my window manager (Ion > *, btw), but I'm
> not regularly inserting potentially buggy Elisp into those.

I worked out a fix for that when I was inserting potentially buggy C into 
Ratpoison.

Change the line in your .xinitrc from "exec wm" to "exec doloopx wm".  Then get
http://twb.ath.cx/~twb/src/scripts/doloop.sh and put it in your $PATH in a file
called doloopx.

When your WM crashes (or otherwise terminates), you'll get a popup dialog
asking if you want to restart it.

> Also, using Emacs for everything means losing some multitasking ability.
> Emacs-w3m uses asynchronous processes, but Gnus doesn't, for example.
-- 
Trent Buck, Student Errant