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What's the difference between daemon and server-mode?
by Scarbutt 3y ago
What's the difference between daemon and server-mode?
- a_e_k 3y agoIIRC, daemon mode is a headless instance of the Emacs that the clients can connect to. Server-mode is just a standard, headful, user-session instance of Emacs that can also accept clients.
- globular-toast 3y agoDaemon runs without a UI at all and can only be used with emacsclient. server-mode is used with a normal/non-daemon instance so emacsclients can connect to it. Combined with the --alternative option you can then run emacsclient without really thinking about it. The first one will start a full emacs instance and enable the server, subsequent ones will just connect to that server.