Comment by rich_sasha

I wasn't aware of any frowniness! Sure, there are some features you can only access via gui, but I'd say they are extremely minimal in my workflow:

- real buttons in GUI

- rendering inline images/LaTeX

- varies fonts (eg font sizes)

There may be others but I can't think of them. Neither of the above is things I do more often than a handful of times a year.

Meanwhile, terminal Emacs plays well with tmux and SSH which I do a lot of. For example, a workflow I have is to SSH to a Linux box, start a tmux session and have Emacs/ipython/jupyter with port forwarding open on the remote box. I can steal this tmux session from any new connection. It also survives if the machine I'm sshing from dies or reboots. I can't think of a way to make it work with GUI emacs.