I use the GNU Shepherd init system as an unprivileged user to manage my emacs daemon, and other things like gpg-agent. The real benefit of 'emacs --daemon', fo

I use the GNU Shepherd init system as an unprivileged user to manage my emacs daemon, and other things like gpg-agent. The real benefit of 'emacs --daemon', for me, isn't the faster client startup time, but the unification of the many programs that may spawn $EDITOR. Rather than each one spawning a new Emacs process, these programs spawn a client in the window I already have open where I can access everything else I was working on. On top of that, I use the ItsAllText extension for Firefox to edit text fields inside of that same Emacs instance, too. Very convenient.