How to open Emacs inside Bash

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I m using Ubuntu 11 10  Oneiric Ocelot   When I type the command  quot emacs quot  in the terminal  it opens Emacs as a separate window  How can I open it inside the terminal  like the nano editor

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Emacs takes many launch options  The one that you are looking for is emacs -nw  This will open Emacs inside the terminal disregarding the DISPLAY environment variable even if it is set  The long form of this flag is emacs --no-window-system  More information about Emacs launch options can be found in the manual

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Just type emacs -nw  This won t open an X window

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I didn t like the alias solution for my purposes  For one  it didn t work for setting export EDITOR  quot emacs -nw quot   But you can pass --without-x to configure and then just the regular old Emacs will always open in terminal  curl http   gnu mirrors hoobly com emacs emacs-25 3 tar xz tar -xvzf emacs-25 3 tar xz  amp  amp  cd emacs-25 3   configure --without-x make  amp  amp  sudo make install

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emacs hello c -nw  This is to open a hello c file using Emacs inside the terminal

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If you need to open Emacs without X  emacs -nw

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In the spirit of providing functionality  go to your  profile or  bashrc file located at  home usr  and at the bottom add the line  alias enw  emacs -nw   Now each time you open a terminal session you just type  for example  enw and you have the Emacs no-window option with three letters

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Try emacs    daemon to have Emacs running in the background  and emacsclient to connect to the Emacs server  It   s not much time overhead saved on modern systems  but it   s a lot better than running several instances of Emacs

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It can be useful also to add the option --no-desktop to avoid launching several buffers saved

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