After having used emacs for a couple of months now, I discovered the emacs --daemon option today and was astonished. Having quite a big emacs config, it takes ages for emacs to start preventing me from using it as the standard editor for config files etc. The --daemon mode starts emacs in the background acting as a server and allows one to create emacs frames using the emacsclient in various ways. EMacs shows up lightning-fast then and becomes an option for the always-to-use text editor.
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