title: Implicitly launch detached program (&) from terminal
body: <p>I feel sure this will end up as a duplicate, but I don't know how to word it so that I can search for it...</p>
  
  <p>I like to do my programming in emacs, which I launch from the terminal. When I use my mac I use aquamacs and the command</p>
  
  <pre><code>aquamacs Program.py
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>will launch aquamacs in a separate window ready to edit Program.py. When I work on my linux machine however to get the same result I must type</p>
  
  <pre><code>emacs Program.py &amp;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I'm always forgetting the "&amp;". So 70% of the time I end up closing the emacs window, and relaunching again with the "&amp;". Now I understand why that "&amp;" is there, but is there a way to set up my system so that the command </p>
  
  <pre><code>emacs Program.py
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>always launches as a detached process? The only time I might not want that behavior is if I was SSHing in over a slow connection, in which case I usually use "-nw" anyway.</p>