Subject: RE: log-reader

[Michael O'Donnell]

> Thanks for the clarification, as I generally invoke an editor
> ad hoc for editing specific documents, and then dissolve it when
> I'm done.  If you (and other emacs users) fire it up as part of
> your initial window invocations and leave it up during your entire
> working session then, yes, I can clearly see that there's no
> "cost" associated with using it to check the logs.  Conversely,
> starting up a separate invocation of emacs just to watch the logs
> seemed to me to be a bit "expensive".


Doesn't Emacs have a client-server mode (or version)
wherein one heavyweight Emacs process remains
resident in memory and then a bunch of lightweight
Emacs processes can connect to it?