Making My Emacs Start Faster

Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster by theophrastus on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @12:56PM (#10705357)

If you have any details, links, hints about how to accomplish this (for instance, where does one find a proper "emacsclient.service" file?) please consider yourself emboldened

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Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster by wging on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @01:05PM (#10705462)

Starting from systemd is a league beyond what I've done. But you might like this script:

    #!/bin/sh
    emacsclient -t $@ || (emacs --daemon && emacsclient -t $@)

You'll want something like

    (unless (server-running-p)
      (server-start))

in your init file.

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Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster by tbirdz on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @02:14PM (#10705998)

Or use

    emacsclient -t --alternative-editor=""

and emacsclient will start the daemon if it hasn't already been started. You can also set the ALTERNATIVE_EDITOR environment variable to "" to achieve the same effect.

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Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster by volent on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @03:06PM (#10706331)

After some investigation I found that the option and the env var are called "alternate editor" and not "alternative editor".

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Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster by tbirdz on Thursday December 10, 2015 @03:28PM (#10713209)

Sorry, brainfart!

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Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster by NoGravitas on Thursday December 10, 2015 @07:26AM (#10710278)

I use the system service ([email protected]) from [this blog post][0]. I used 'systemctl enable [email protected]' so that emacs is always started on boot.

I have a one-liner shell script called 'em' that just runs 'emacsclient -t $*' so that it can be set as $VISUAL and used by whatever command line tools use that.

[0]: http://blog.refu.co/?p=1296

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Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster by davexunit on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @01:43PM (#10705788)

I don't have a systemd example, but here's a GNU dmd service that I use which shows how to properly start/stop the daemon:

https://git.dthompson.us/dotfiles.git/blob/HEAD:/dotfiles/.d...

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Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster by qiushihe on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @04:58PM (#10707073)

I had a slightly different approach in that I made a script to launch Emacs server on-demand: https://github.com/qiushihe/dotpiles/blob/master/emacs/emacs...

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