On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:59:04AM +0100, Jonas Stein wrote:
> what is the best way to start emacs --deamon in a debian (testing) system?

I do this in .bash_profile for the users who I wish to set this up for:

if ! killall -q -s 0 emacs ; then
  emacs --daemon
fi

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Cheers,
Dan

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