Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> writes:

> Can you describe user services a little more for me?  It would be nice
> to have the shepherd auto start my emacs...  Then I could connect via
> emacsclient.  What's the status on that?

Some patches have been sent, but there is quite some work to be done,
especially regarding the initial specifications.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00128.html

> For now do I just need to run another instance of the shepherd as myself
> when I login?

Yes, you can do that.
I think the above link hints at some examples.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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