Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     It is a bad habit to exit Emacs when one might need it soon.  But
>     there is nothing to be gained from starting it when one does not
>     actually need to edit anything.
>
> The bad habit effect is that if one gets in the habit of visiting a
> file by starting Emacs,

That was not what I was talking about.  I was talking about the habit
of starting Emacs by visiting a file.

I hop you can see the difference.

> one will tend to start a new Emacs instead of going back to the old
> one -- without thinking about it.
>
> Maybe you have the constant mindfulness to overcome the force of
> habit, but many users don't.

Again: it is not our task to punish users whose habits don't match
ours.  Emacs is a tool, not a master for the user.

-- 
David Kastrup