Sync recentf between Spacemacs instances?

[fmthoma]

When using two instances of Spacemacs, the recentf are written by the instance that exits last, overwriting the recentf saved by the previous instance. This way, half of the files I open are missing from recentf.

It appears there exists a package (sync-recentf) to solve this, would it be feasible to use this package in Spacemacs to synchronize the recentf between instances?

[Stebalien]

I strongly recommend you use a daemon with multiple frames instead of multiple instances of spacemacs. For one, this will save you a lot of RAM.

[fmthoma]

@Stebalien Yes, I'd like to do that. However, for almost all themes, the colors in the terminal are broken (see #1269). Hence I use different themes in the terminal (for quickly editing a file from the command line, so I use the daemon here) and in a persistent instance of Spacemacs (IDE-style). Can't use the daemon for both, though, because the theme then will apply to all windows, terminal or not.

So yes, in my case this problem is caused by a very particular workflow to work around a totally different problem, and I'd be better off to solve the underlying problem. OTOH, this feature would still be nice to have.

[patata3000]

I've got a problem using one instance of spacemacs with several frames. I can only have one neotree instance over all the frames...

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