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		deleuze on June 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode Run Emacs as a daemon/server and then connect with emacsclient in the terminal. Will start up in about the same time as Vim.

bananamerica on June 29, 2020 | [–]

I run Emacs as a daemon but I need two sets of configurations because many colors and keybindings won’t work on the terminal.

_emacsomancer_ on June 30, 2020 | | [–]

You can run multiple daemons of course.

bananamerica on June 30, 2020 | | | [–]

Complexity intensifies... hahaha

clojureyoureyes on June 29, 2020 | [–]

emacsclient usually starts even faster than the Vim (even without .vimrc)

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