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

I use the system service (emacs@.service) from [this blog post][0]. I used 'systemctl enable emacs@myusername.service' 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 http://blog.refu.co/?p=1296