6/1/2023 0 Comments Launch emacs without gui![]() For quick editing of text files, including writing micro-posts or Git commit messages, I tend to use Neovim. And this makes a huge difference! What else? Well, I think it depends on the intended usage. I can have the same rendering of font and color in GUI and terminal mode. Later I discovered that you can have a 24-bit mode for terminal applications, and you just have to prefix the invocation of your preferred command with env TERM=xterm-24bit, once you have installed the corresponding terminfo stuff. I guess my main complaints were the lack of support for 24-bit colors (while iTerm supports them), which means tweaking your default theme or adding a lot of if/switch statements. ![]() At one point I was using Emacs almost exclusively from iTerm, then I got bored or something like that and switched to GUI mode only. Also, there are compelling arguments about why it is probably better to run Emacs in a GUI: generally this amounts to displaying images, using OS specific or extra keybindings not available in tty (unless you use xterm, rxvt or iTerm, but it’s cumbersome to remap everything), but there are probably some other subtleties that I never noticed besides posframe which is quite great. I know this has been debated at large on the web, and there are already excellent threads on Reddit regarding the use of Emacs in terminal vs.
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