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Can I have a "singleton" emacs instance?

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Mar 15, 2026588 views

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In other words, can I start emacs once, and whenever I type emacs whatever in terminal, have it open as a buffer in my existing emacs instance?

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Yes. How you do it depends on the OS and version of emacs (XEmacs, GNU emacs) you are running. A good place to start is to look at GnuClient and EmacsClient.

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