Learn Linux: Emacs

Learning Linux: By Alexandro “JZA” Colorado [email_address] Emacs

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What is Emacs?
Using Emacs
Keyboard basics
Costuming Emacs
Looking for help on Emacs

What is Emacs?
Is a command line text editor
Emacs is useful to program and edit text files
Emacs is built for extendability
Emacs contain many key-bindings

Run Emacs
To start emacs type emacs or emacs -nw for command line version
Ctrl-x Ctrl-c will exit Emacs
Emacs is divided into a menu bar (top), min-buffer and Status Bar.

Emacs special Keys
C = Ctrl
M = Alt / Esc
C-f = Ctrl + f
C-x C-c = Ctrl+x + Ctrl+c
buffer = file in memory
point = cursor
tab = completition

Emacs cheat sheet
Ctrl-p Up one line
Ctrl-n Down one line
Ctrl-b Backward one character
Ctrl-f Forward one character
Ctrl-e End of the line
Ctrl-a Beginning of the line
Ctrl-v Down one page
Alt-v Up one page
Ctrl-k cut text
Ctrl-y paste text
Ctrl-x Ctrl-s Save file
Ctrl-u undo
Ctrl-x Ctrl-f Open file
Ctrl-s Find forward
Ctrl-r Find backward
Tab autocomplete
Ctrl-h help
Ctrl-h f help function
Ctrl-h a aproppos
Ctrl-h i documentation

What can I do with Emacs
Run a shell (Ctrl-)
Compose email (Alt-p shell)
File Manager (Ctrl-x d)
Split windows (Ctrl-x 2)
View calendar (Alt-x calendar)
Calculator (Alt-x calculator)
and many, many more

Getting help on Emacs
Emacs mailing lists: http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group_id=40
Emacs guided tour: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
Emacs wiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsMailingLists
Emacs chat: irc.freenode.net/emacs

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