Emacs: Launch

Microsoft Windows

double click the emacs icon

or

• Emacs on Windows: Start Emacs from Terminal

MacOS

double click the emacs icon

or

• Emacs: MacOS: Start Emacs from Terminal

Linux

On a text terminal, type:

# linux. Start GUI emacs
emacs &

# linux. run emacs in text terminal
emacs -nw

-nw is same as --no-window-system, means run emacs in text terminal.

Start emacs and open a file

# open a file with emacs
emacs fileName