How can I get emacs -nw when I call emacs from a terminal but GUI emacs elsewhere?

Blackened Justice · 09-07-2011, 12:44 PM

Title says pretty much everything. When I call emacs from the terminal, I want to have the terminal-based version of emacs, not have a separate window with the GUI version. However, if I call it using Gnome Do, or from the applications menu, I want to have the GUI version.

Could anyone help me?

Thanks in advance

EDIT: Another doubt: Is there any difference between typing 'sudo bash' or 'su'?

Cheers

business_kid · 09-07-2011, 02:01 PM

Let me try.

In your ~/.bash_profile put this line

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alias emacs='emacs-nw'

in your ~/.bashrc, put

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alias emacs='emacs-gui-version' or whatever it's called.

As for sudo bash, it avoids the password stage of su.

Blackened Justice · 09-07-2011, 04:06 PM

I don't have a .bash_profile in my home folder...
As a simple temporary solution I have made a simple script and put it in the /usr/local/sbin folder, the first in the $PATH variable.

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/emacs -nw

It works if I just call emacs, but I can't pass any arguments (most importantly the filename).

business_kid · 09-08-2011, 02:42 AM

Let me try again:

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echo "alias emacs='emacs-nw' " >>~/.bash_profile
echo "alias emacs='emacs-gui-version' " >> ~?.bashrc

Make sure to fix the second line with the correct binary. I'm not an emacs type - I'm not even a vi type. Those commands will add a line if the file is there, and create it if it isn't.

Blackened Justice · 09-08-2011, 07:57 AM

Thank you for the suggestion, I read the .bashrc file and figured out what to do. I created a .bash_aliases file, as suggested, and put the "alias emacs='emacs -nw'" line on it. It now works perfectly, if I call it from the terminal I get the terminal version and if I call it from pretty much everywhere else, I get the GUI version.