Define a service for shepherd that starts up Emacs.

#+begin_src scheme
(define emacs
  (make <service>
    #:provides '(emacs)
    #:docstring "Run `emacs --daemon'"
    #:start (make-forkexec-constructor
             '("emacs" "--fg-daemon")
             #:log-file (string-append (getenv "HOME") "/.logs/emacs.log"))
    #:stop (make-kill-destructor)))

(register-services emacs)

(start emacs)
#+end_src