Emacs on Windows: Start Emacs from Terminal

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

On Windows, to start emacs with command line options, you can use PowerShell.

Launch GUI Emacs, from Terminal

# Microsoft Windows. Start GUI emacs, via PowerShell
~/Downloads/emacs-30.1/bin/runemacs.exe

Run Text Emacs in Terminal

# Microsoft Windows. Start emacs in terminal, via PowerShell
~/Downloads/emacs-30.1/bin/emacs.exe -nw