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Emacs as a service
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Emacs as a service

$ touch /etc/systemd/system/emacs.service
$ chmod 664 /etc/systemd/system/emacs.service

/etc/systemd/system/emacs.service

[Unit]
Description=Emacs: the extensible, self-documenting text editor
           
[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/emacs --daemon
ExecStop=/usr/bin/emacsclient --eval "(kill-emacs)"
Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t/keyring/ssh
Restart=always
           
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

$ systemctl daemon-reload
$ systemctl start emacs.service
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