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[Robert Lamar <address@hidden>]

Nicolas Girard wrote:
> On jeudi 07 juin 2007, Krzysztof Retel wrote:
> > You could open your file in a first instance, i.e
> >
> > texmacs a.tm
> >
> > And then choose:   View -> Open new window , from the menu bar. And then
> > in new window open another desired file.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Krzysztof
> >
> > > is there a way of having TeXmacs run only one instance, i.e. after typing
> > >
> > >     $ texmacs a.tm&
> > >     $ texmacs b.tm&
>
> Sorry if I wasn't clear enough ; specifically, in any linux distribution, file 
> managers associate ".tm" files to the "texmacs" program so that TeXmacs is 
> executed once you have clicked on a ".tm" file. How to avoid several TeXmacs 
> instances to be run when the user wants to display several files by opening 
> them via its file manager ?

One hack that might require minimal modification to TeXmacs would be to 
add a command line option which permits one to send scheme commands to a 
running instance of TeXmacs.  This way, a shell script could be written 
which would check to see if TeXmacs was already running.  If it were, it 
would send a command to open the file as Krzysztof suggests.  Otherwise, 
it would simply start up TeXmacs and open the file as normal.  You could 
probably then tell your window manager to associate *.tm files with this 
script instead of the texmacs executable itself.

Robert