This is what I do, too. I also load emacs by clicking an icon - I doubt I've run it from the terminal more than a handful of times. (I've never figured out how

This is what I do, too. I also load emacs by clicking an icon - I doubt I've run it from the terminal more than a handful of times. (I've never figured out how to make terminal emacs work properly anyway - half the keybindings don't work, and it's a different half in each terminal program.)