emacs

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The extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor. See also: `emacsclient`.

Options (1)

--no-window-systemboolean

Start Emacs in console mode (without an X window)

Example: emacs {{[-nw|--no-window-system]}}

Start Emacs and open a file

emacs path/to/file

Open a file at a specified line number

emacs +line_number path/to/file

Run an Emacs Lisp file as a script

emacs --script path/to/file.el

Start Emacs in console mode (without an X window)

emacs [-nw|--no-window-system]

Start an Emacs server in the background (accessible via `emacsclient`)

emacs --daemon

Stop a running Emacs server and all its instances, asking for confirmation on unsaved files

emacsclient --eval '(save-buffers-kill-emacs)'

Save a file in Emacs

<Ctrl x><Ctrl s>

Quit Emacs

<Ctrl x><Ctrl c>