Ubuntu: Keep emacs in the terminal

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00:00 Ubuntu: Keep Emacs In The Terminal
00:20 Accepted Answer Score 47
00:39 Answer 2 Score 6
00:52 Answer 3 Score 4
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 47

Start it with:

emacs -nw

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

alias emacs='emacs -nw'

ANSWER 2

Score 6

What about installing the no X window system version:

apt-get install emacs-snapshot-nox

ANSWER 3

Score 4

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.