If you want a little more terminal magic here are my emacs related shortcuts: alias et='TERM=xterm-256color emacsclient -t' alias ec='emacsclient -c -a=ema

If you want a little more terminal magic here are my emacs related shortcuts: alias et='TERM=xterm-256color emacsclient -t' alias ec='emacsclient -c -a=emacs' alias ed='emacs --daemon' alias kill-emacs='emacsclient -e "(kill-emacs)"' alias e='TERM=xterm-256color f -e "emacsclient -c -a=emacs"' The reason for these is that emacs is a little slow to start up (in comparison to vim at least). So you can set up a daemon running ( ed command above, for emacs daemon. I don't have ed on my system) You can then open up a new frame (window) of emacs with the ec command, or a new terminal session of emacs with the et command. My favourite is the e command, which makes use of fasd[0] to find any "frecent" file, tries to open it with emacsclient, but, if emacs daemon is not running will fall back to opening a new emacs (which with spacemacs will start a new daemon running). This way I can open files in completely different directories if need be. [0] https://github.com/clvv/fasd https://github.com/clvv/fasd