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I'm currently using Emacs on daemon mode. I save my sessions using the desktop package. I also combine that with this in order to have several named sessions saved. If I have several Emacs windows open they all open up in the same session and if I switch to another session all the Emacs windows switch to the same session. I would like to be able to have different session in different Windows. How can this be done?

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from the emacs info documentation:

You can run multiple Emacs servers on the same machine by giving
each one a unique "server name", using the variable `server-name'.  For
example, `M-x set-variable <RET> server-name <RET> foo <RET>' sets the
server name to `foo'.  The `emacsclient' program can specify a server by
name, using the `-s' option.

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  • It sure works for me.
    – SamB
    Jan 2, 2014 at 4:46
  • Note: when you set the server-name, the new name must be in quotes.
    – ctrl-alt-delor
    Mar 7, 2014 at 11:39
  • It did not work for me at first. I thought I was running in server mode, it was behaving like it was, I used emacsclient to connect. But going to customise emacs -> top level -> external -> server -> server mode and switching it on, did the trick.
    – ctrl-alt-delor
    Mar 7, 2014 at 11:43

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