Hacker News Reader

> Nowadays it might be reasonable, but it still takes almost 4 seconds on this laptop, which I find to be a painfully long wait for opening a file.

That is one of the use cases for emacsclient/Emacs server.

View on HN

Yes! I should have mentioned that. I mostly use emacsclient as an $EDITOR for git and similar programs in Emacs shell-mode, but you can also use it as a version of Emacs that you can run quickly in a tmux window, if that's what floats your boat!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com