How start Emacs in a console window?
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Solution 1
As I said in my comment,
emacs -nw
works on Windows.
Solution 2
emacs -nw doesn't necessarily work in Windows. On my system it throws a
emacs: standard input is not a tty
error, in both cygwin and msys2.
(posted as response to above because stack exchange won't allow me to add a comment).
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Comments
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mjsr over 3 years
i would like to know how can i launch emacs inside the console window, not in a separated GUI. Im using emacs 23.2 in Windows.
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Jeremiah Willcock about 13 yearsDoes
emacs -nw
work on Windows? That is the command to start Emacs in a shell on Unix. -
Oleg Pavliv about 13 yearsTry to install cygwin with Emacs
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mjsr about 13 years@Cheeso @jeremiahWillcock if you make an answer i could marks as that, :) that command works.
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swdev about 13 yearsthis is my favorite :
emacs -nw
I create a shell replacement, that basically start anemacs -nw
as the default shell (first run application after user login). It run in Console DOS Prompt! love it