http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53257
--- Comment #8 from Stian Low wineryyyyy@gmail.com --- Regarding the Emacs no-window option -nw, it does misbehave in unusuable fashion when called directly in a linux terminal as it seems there's some incompatible intermixing of all the layers involved.
However launching c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe via `wine explorer` creates a dedicated cmd window within the wine environment which resolves the issues when calling `emacs -nw`
See the -nw screenshot showing how to run `emacs -nw` from wine in a way that mimics how the equivalent command would be called on Windows.
Without launching cmd.exe according to the screenshot, the backmost Linux terminal of wine fixmes gets intermixed into the emacs terminal to the right, which is the cmd.exe window with `emacs -nw` run, which causes malfunctions. For instance the keybind C-s for search-forward doesn't work and outputs '<pause> is undefined'
Launched according to the snapsho, `emacs -nw` behaves as expected in usual usable fashion.