After I install emacs package on Debian 7 (Wheezy), when I start it up on a GUI terminal, it opens a GUI (GTK-based). I would rather it just run from the terminal.
How to disable X support for emacs
debian;emacs
You can start emacs with the --no-window-system command line option (-nw for short).$ emacs --no-window-systemDebian also offers a package that has X disabled, emacs-nox. It Conflicts with the normal emacs23 package (the main one, which runs X when available). It removes the need to specify the --no-window-system option.