Emacs comes with a GUI app that launches emacs. It would be very helpful if there would be a GUI app that launches emacsclient. Im on OSX, and sometimes its useful to drag a few files from my desktop to the emacs icon on my dock. but that launches the full emacs, so its slow. it would be nice if that app checked for a running daemon to connect to before launching the full emacs, or if there would be a second app that would use emacsclient. So we shoudl either add a new app for emacsclient, or better, make that existing app use emacsclient, and if there is no daemon, then use full emacs. 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