You might also want to look into running emacs as a daemon, if you haven't already. Since it runs as a server in the background (with a grand total of maybe 30M

You might also want to look into running emacs as a daemon, if you haven't already. Since it runs as a server in the background (with a grand total of maybe 30MB used in my case), clients pop up instantly and if there were buffers open on the server from before, they will remain open even if you close the client's window. If you start/close emacs more often, it's definitely a nice thing to have. emacs --daemon clients are called using either emacsclient (for either terminal client or gtk/x11 client) emacsclient -c (to open a new frame) emacsclient -t (to open a frame in the current terminal)