Traditionally one has a single, long running Emacs process that you do everything in, even quick edits. If you had to wait for it to start up from scratch then

Traditionally one has a single, long running Emacs process that you do everything in, even quick edits. If you had to wait for it to start up from scratch then yeah, that would be pretty annoying. My fingers frequently go `sudo vi ...' because I'm not used to using the sudo mode in TRAMP, but that would arguably be my deficiency, not Emacs.