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hierandthere on May 30, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs

How often do you start Emacs? I do that maybe once a week.

dotancohen on May 31, 2022 [–]

I start Emacs every few minutes, for Org mode notes.

alex_smart on May 31, 2022 | [–]

You do not have to start a new instance of Emacs every time. You can tell emacs to start a server and then use emacsclient to connect to your already running instance of emacs.

dotancohen on May 31, 2022 | | [–]

Thank you Alex. I'm configuring that now.

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