Mastering Emacs

Contents Introduction Thank You 2020 Edition Update What's New Intended Audience What You'll Learn The Way of Emacs Guiding Philosophy LISP? Extensibility Important Conventions The Buffer The Window and the Frame The Point and Mark Killing, Yanking and CUA .emacs.d, init.el, and .emacs Major Modes and Minor Modes First Steps Installing and Starting Emacs Starting Emacs The Emacs Interface Keys Caps Lock as Control M-x: Execute Extended Command Universal Arguments Discovering and Remembering Keys Configuring Emacs The Customize Interface Evaluating Elisp Code The Package Manager Color Themes Getting Help The Info Manual Apropos The Describe System The Theory of Movement The Basics C-x C-f: Find file C-x C-s: Save Buffer C-x C-c: Exits Emacs C-x b: Switch Buffer C-x k: Kill Buffer ESC ESC ESC: Keyboard Escape C-/: Undo Window Management Working with Other Windows Frame Management Tab Bars and Tab Lines Tab Bar Mode Tab Line Mode Elemental Movement Navigation Keys Moving by Character Moving by Line Moving by Word Moving by S-Expressions Other Movement Commands Scrolling Bookmarks and Registers Selections and Regions Selection Compatibility Modes Setting the Mark Searching and Indexing Isearch: Incremental Search Occur: Print and Edit lines matching an expression Imenu: Jump to definitions Helm: Incremental Completion and Selection IDO: Interactively DO Things Grep: Searching the file system Other Movement Commands Conclusion The Theory of Editing Killing and Yanking Text Killing versus Deleting Yanking Text Transposing Text C-t: Transpose Characters M-t: Transpose Words C-M-t: Transpose S-expressions Other Transpose Commands Filling and Commenting Filling Commenting Search and Replace Case Folding Regular Expressions Changing Case Counting Things Text Manipulation Editable Occur Deleting Duplicates Flushing and Keeping Lines Joining and Splitting Lines Whitespace Commands Keyboard Macros Basic Commands Advanced Commands Text Expansion Abbrev DAbbrev and Hippie Expand Indenting Text and Code RET: Indenting New lines TAB: Indenting the Current Line Indenting Regions Sorting and Aligning Sorting Aligning Other Editing Commands Zapping Characters Spell Checking Quoted Insert The Practicals of Emacs Exploring Emacs Reading the Manual Using Apropos C-h: Exploring Prefix keys C-h k: Describe what a key does C-h m: Finding mode commands Project Management Xref: Cross-References in Emacs Working with Log Files Browsing Other Files TRAMP: Remote File Editing The Default Directory and Remote Editing Multi-Hops and User Switching EWW: Emacs Web Wowser Dired: Files and Directories Navigation Marking and Unmarking Operations Working Across Directories Shell Commands Compiling in Emacs Shells in Emacs M-x shell: Shell Mode M-x ansi-term: Terminal Emulator M-x eshell: Emacs's Shell Conclusion Other Resources Third-Party Packages and Tools Communities