As a side note, you could run Emacs in daemon mode and connect to it with the client. See http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/emacs-daemon.html http://emacs-fu

As a side note, you could run Emacs in daemon mode and connect to it with the client. See http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/emacs-daemon.html http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/emacs-daemon.html for more details. This way you only have to pay the startup cost once.