[bazfoo]

And you can have something fun like the following in your bashrc to allow attaching to your running emacs daemon any time you need in the terminal:

    function semacs() {
      emacsclient -t -a "" "/sudo::$(realpath $@)"
    }

[mitchty]

Even more fun is using tramp to edit files as root on a machine via ssh. The whole installed editor canard is somewhat a nonissue from the emacs side.