# Two juno sessions on same machine?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-juno-sessions-on-same-machine/38447>\
**Category:** Juno\
**Created:** [April 29, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-juno-sessions-on-same-machine/38447 "2020-04-29T20:25:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaynick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jaynick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jaynick)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-juno-sessions-on-same-machine/38447/1 "2020-04-29T20:25:43Z")

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Helo

After coding I run the program from Juno. It runs for a long time.

While the first program is running, I would like to interactively edit a different program.

To do this, does it work to open 2 atom editors on the same machine? I think on the Mac it is not even possible to have Atom open “twice”, however on Linux it is possible.

Alternately, is there a way to have 2 sessions+REPLs within a single atom session?

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**Author:** ![pixel27](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pixel27/32/8902_2.png) [@pixel27](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pixel27)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-juno-sessions-on-same-machine/38447/2 "2020-04-29T20:56:35Z")

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Each Atom instance has it’s own Julia instance. So that will work fine. I’m on linux and routinely have 2 to 4 instances of Atom open with their own Julia instances.

I don’t think you can do two Julia sessions in one Atom however.

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**Author:** ![jaynick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jaynick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jaynick)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-juno-sessions-on-same-machine/38447/3 "2020-04-30T04:44:12Z")

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Thank you.

This answers for linux. I am curious what people on Macs do also.

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**Author:** ![pfitzseb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pfitzseb/32/45566_2.png) [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 7:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-juno-sessions-on-same-machine/38447/4 "2020-04-30T07:44:13Z")

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You could try `atom -n`, which should force Atom to open a new window.

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**Author:** ![mlanghinrichs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mlanghinrichs/32/50371_2.png) [@mlanghinrichs](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mlanghinrichs)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-juno-sessions-on-same-machine/38447/5 "2020-05-06T08:05:34Z")

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I’m on Mac and for me it works just fine to do “File → New Window” in Atom. Then you can start another instance of the Julia REPL in this second Atom window.