The first text-editor in Linux I ever used was pico. Then I was introduced to emacs and remained using for awhile. Nowadays, vi(m) is my favorite and default text editor of choice. Anyway, the main point of this post is to how to start emacs in terminal-mode instead of graphical mode.
$ emacs -nw
That’s it. -nw actually does the trick.
Reference: How to get started…
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How does one make it so that emacs runs in terminal mode by default, without having to suffix each call to emacs with -nw ?
One way to do it is to create an alias in your ~/.bashrc. Something like this:
alias emacs=’emacs -nw’
lol u funny wat did u mean
Thanks for the article. I googled for a solution and found it here.
My pleasure.
I want to start using the terminal for Unix Emacs but wasn’t sure where to go..Any help would be great? Thxs 🙂
What does -nw stand for?
Or, How can I remember it?
Thanks
-nw stands for no window system. You can find out more by running: man emacs. How to remember it? The next time you want to run emacs in a non-window system mode, what option to use? Of course, nw!
Of course! Thanks for answering my silly question.