Make emacsclient an easy habit!

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Set an environment variable called ALTERNATE_EDITOR to point to this script.  Then get in the habit of using emacsclient always.  This will fire up emacs and wait for the server to start then fire up the file passed in via emacs client.

Right now it only works if your emacs will come up on your window manager, because that's primarily how I use it.
-Opie

jumpstartemacs.sh

#!/bin/bash

EMACSBIN=/usr/bin/emacs
EMACSCLIENTBIN=/usr/bin/emacsclient
ALTERNATE_EDITOR=

$EMACSBIN -f server-start &

while !($EMACSCLIENTBIN $@) do
  sleep 2
done