How start Emacs in a console window?

Question

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.

Szymanski

Does emacs -nw work on Windows? That is the command to start Emacs in a shell on Unix. – Uela

Try to install cygwin with Emacs – Omni

@Cheeso @jeremiahWillcock if you make an answer i could marks as that, :) that command works. – Szymanski

Answer 1

As I said in my comment, emacs -nw works on Windows.

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this is my favorite : emacs -nw I create a shell replacement, that basically start an emacs -nw as the default shell (first run application after user login). It run in Console DOS Prompt! love it – Snider

this answer solved my two month search for running emacs in terminal, thank you. @Snider would you mind giving me hints how I can create a shell replacement then? – Birchard

woa. it's been .. what? 12 years? It was using Windows .. XP I think. So, at that time we can easily replace shell=explorer.exe to shell=ourownshell.exe (I forgot where this line was configured). But have a look at this: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/… And also, I think you can use autohotkey.com to simply run emacs -nw as default shell. Let me know – Snider