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Because it would take up memory from everyone, including non-emacs users.

• mrighele 11y ago
  I think that the best default approach would be to start as a normal emacs process but revert to emacsclient behaviour (i.e. just open a new frame) if a running instance of emacs is detected. This is what web browsers do, for example.
  • __david__ 11y ago
    Luckily, all that takes is: alias emacs="emacsclient -a '' -c" But you're right, I wish that were the default.