Emacs: MacOS: Start Emacs from Terminal

Start GUI Emacs from Terminal and Detach from Terminal

open -a emacs -n --args --debug-init

• -a means app.
• -n means new instance.
• anything after --args means pass on.

Run Emacs in Text Terminal

# Mac OS X. run emacs in text terminal
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw