What I would like to achieve

  • one instance of emacs
  • if i open any text file from nautilus, it should open in the current emacs instance
  • if i close emacs, it shouldn't really close it, just hide it

What I have currently

  • I set emacs23 to start at startup
  • I have (start-server) in my init
  • I leave emacs open
  • I have emacsclient as the default texteditor

Issues I encountered while trying to achieve what I wanted

  • emacs gives the following error if i quit emacs and try to start it again

File error: Cannot bind server socket, address already in use

Things I tried

Update: I tried again with the stackoverflow link, and now most of it is working. However, something I would like to be able to do is to reload the init file, so that I can make changes to my init file without restarting the computer. Any ideas?

Also, if the server is running and I have emacs false-closed (see emacs fu link), how can i start it again without loading a file? eg what would the equivalent of running emacs23 be, as this doesn't work (see error written above)

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