Another not quite obvious thing about emacs is the result of ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-prefix=t \ --without-all --with-x-toolkit=no && mak

Another not quite obvious thing about emacs is the result of ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-prefix=t \ --without-all --with-x-toolkit=no && make -s bootstrap Which will give you, say, your beloved Clojure's Nrepl on a remote machine over ssh. Yes, it works perfectly fine in a terminal.