emacs.d: My emacs initialization file

• Changes are best made in settings.org.
• A neat way to avoid the start up of ordinary emacs is to run an emacs server

emacs --daemon

Then a client can quickly connect to the server.

emacsclient -nw

To make emacsclient the default method for interacting with emacs, I added an alias to .bashrc.

alias emacs='emacsclient -nw'

Note that whenever the configuration of emacs is changed, the server needs to be restarted rather than the client. To conveniently (re)start emacs, I added another alias to .bashrc

alias startEmacs='emacsclient -e "(kill-emacs)"; /usr/bin/emacs --daemon'