I finally got around to upgrading to the the newest stable release of Emacs. There were a few things I wanted to be able to do and rather than use outdated methods I decided it was time to upgrade to Emacs 23. I ran into a few hitches along the way but after getting them resolved I went about setting up the Emacs daemon to load quietly in the background and start using multiple emacs clients under different GNU Screen windows. I had a bit of a time figuring out how to make it so it wouldn’t try to start up another server each time I logged in via SSH or created a new Screen. I never really found a one stop answer for this, rather it was a combination of several suggestions I saw. So here’s what I came up with for my ~/.bashrc:
# Boot up the Emacs Daemon
function emacs_is_running() {
ps -ef | grep "emacs --daemon" | grep -v grep > /dev/null
}
# Debug
if emacs_is_running; then
echo Emacs daemon already running
else
echo Launching emacs daemon
emacs --daemon
fi
# Fix Typos, Add Shortcuts...
alias e="emacsclient -c -a nano"
alias emac="emacsclient -c -a nano"
alias emacs="emacsclient -c -a nano"
alias emasc="emacsclient -c -a nano"
alias pico="emacsclient -c"
EDITOR="emacsclient -c -a nano"
VISUAL="emacsclient -c -a nano"
