emacs Command Examples

The extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor. See also emacsclient. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs.

• 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>