Sort of. You can run emacs as a daemon and attach to it with emacsclient. Then when you want to detach, you just C-x C-c like usual, or disconnect and let the

Sort of. You can run emacs as a daemon and attach to it with emacsclient. Then when you want to detach, you just C-x C-c like usual, or disconnect and let the emacsclient process die. You have to remember to run emacs as a daemon up front, though. You could also run emacs inside something like dtach or abduco [1], which are a "session managers" like screen or tmux but without the multiplexer. http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/ http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/