Thankfully, you don't have to use Emacs on the console. Not even on a Powershell-only Windows system (such systems will let you launch graphical applications j

Thankfully, you don't have to use Emacs on the console. Not even on a Powershell-only Windows system (such systems will let you launch graphical applications just fine). Even in the article's use-case (remotely editing files on some remote server), Emacs ships with TRAMP, which can be used with PuTTY's plink to do remote editing (assuming the remote host is accessible via SSH): https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Tramp_on_Windows https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Tramp_on_Windows There's also support for TRAMP over SMB, though I haven't personally tried it (usually for SMB I let the OS handle it and then point Emacs at the local representation).