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0 pointsnatrys5y ago0 comments

Parent is talking about using "emacsclient". Basically you start Emacs in daemon mode (e.g. add "(server-start)" at end of config), and you never kill it. You just pay slow startup cost once, any subsequent client invocation after that is instantaneous.

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k_bx5y ago· 1 in thread

I understand. I use it for my git commit editing in my “master” emacs. It’s just not usable when you want multiple instances in different tmux windows

fiddlerwoaroof5y ago

I have this little handy shell function for that:

    semacs () {
        emacs --eval "(setq server-name \"$1\")" --daemon
    }

`semacs foo` then starts an emacs server named foo and and `emacsclient -s foo -c` attaches to it.

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