[michaelneale]

I would be the same as that (I am tending to use emacs more over time, relearning things from yesteryear).

My only complaint is the startup time for me seems very slow - perhaps I should just have it running after startup ? (I then use spotlight/quicksliver to quickly open up a file in it).

[bkudria]

Yep - keep it running all the time. Also look into emacsclient and emacs --daemon (with (server-start))