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Re: check if another emacs instance is running
From: |
Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: check if another emacs instance is running |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:41:22 +0100 |
> Use some external utility to list current processes e.g.
> (when (< 1 (string-to-number
> (shell-command-to-string "ps -A |grep -c emacs23")))
> (message "ok"))
> ;; but this is system-specific.
On Emacs 23, you can use `list-system-processes' to obtain a list of
process PIDs, and `process-attributes' to get info for each one,
including the process name, etc.
Juanma