Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> writes:

> On 2015-07-19 21:19 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> I've been looking for how to run the "emacs --daemon" but I haven't seen
>> any instructions as to how to do it with a setup similar to mine. So can
>> anyone advise please?
>
> If your computer isn't up "all the time", you probably just want to use
> the normal GUI Emacs as a server at the same time.

The computer is on 24/7, permanently connected to the internet with a
broadband connection. 
>
> That is done by putting
>
> (server-start)
>
> in your init file.  See the documentation for server-start for more
> info.

But that surely means that when emacs is closed/crashes so does the
server-start die, which is what I'm trying to avoid? 

Sharon.
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