> I am in and out of my editor 50 times a day, Emacs just can not and does not support this approach. This is true. I think the typical approach with Emacs is

> I am in and out of my editor 50 times a day, Emacs just can not and does not support this approach. This is true. I think the typical approach with Emacs is to leave 1 instance open for a long period of time and just keep coming back to it. (This is what I do, anyway.) I don't think this is any worse in general than opening and closing the editor as needed, it's just different. Especially when you consider that you can run terminals/shells within Emacs, it's a completely inside-out workflow. Instead of: 1. do a bunch of stuff at the terminal 2. need to edit a file 3. open my editor Once you've gotten to step 2 you're already in your editor!