Ubuntu: Keep emacs in the terminal

Question

I installed emacs on Ubuntu 10.10 using sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk

I prefer my emacs in the terminal and everytime I emacs something, it pops up in some fancy GUI window. How do I go old-school?

Thanks.

cYrus · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-25 22:28:46Z

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Start it with:

emacs -nw

If you're using bash you can set an alias by adding to your ~/.bashrc:

alias emacs='emacs -nw'

answered Oct 25 '10 at 22:28

cYrus
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	Useful idea, but then you can't just $ emacs myfile - it will append -nw as bytes to the opened file. – Luka Ramishvili Nov 27 '12 at 18:28
	I don't think so, with that alias `emacs myfile` is the same as `emacs -nw myfile` and that's perfectly legit since `-nw` gets parsed as an option. – cYrus Nov 27 '12 at 18:53
	"Perfectly legit" seems to be very individual, since I'm very used to the fact that when I open a file, the string '>1;3201;0c' won't be prepended to the file's head and the buffer won't be marked as modified. It may work for you, but not for me, sorry. – Luka Ramishvili Dec 1 '12 at 17:56
	`emacs -nw` then C-x C-f works perfectly, but why `emacs -nw myfile` doesn't work, I don't know. – Luka Ramishvili Dec 1 '12 at 18:26

Ryan Yeske · Answer 2 · 2010-11-09 08:20:01Z

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What about installing the no X window system version:

apt-get install emacs-snapshot-nox

answered Nov 9 '10 at 8:20

Ryan Yeske
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Adobe · Answer 3 · 2011-08-26 11:32:33Z

There's another solution to "make emacs open files quickly" - just start emacs with

emacs -f server-start

and then open every file with

emacsclient -n <file>

If you have emacs client running - this command opens text file in a moment!

To make this solution more usable you can

make emacs server starting at start-up
put alias ec='emacsclient -n' in ~/.bashrc
If you use Krusader - you can set there emacsclient -n as a default notepad - so it opens a file with F4.

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