On 2023-08-31, Charles Curley wrote: > You need an emacs process running in order to use emacsclient. It need > not be a daemon. -a="" will launch a daemon process if there isn't a > process already running, daemon or otherwise.
emacs is enough if you put start-server in init file. Else it don't listen for emacsclient. With it emacs acts as display + daemon.
