Willem Hoek » Using Emacs
Jan 05, 2020
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai, 1829 - 1833
These notes / reminders are how I use Emacs. It is for my own usage but it might be useful to some of you.
Start Emacs in client/server mode
Emacs can run as a server (daemon) in the background, this speeds up startup time. If there isn’t an Emacs daemon running, it will start one and connect to it.
C:\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe -n -c -a ""
Org Mode
C-x n n Narrow down MARKED AREA
C-x n d Narrow down to the current NODE
C-x n w Widen to entire buffer- CANCEL NARROW
C-c C-e Export
C-c . Insert Date-time stamp
C-x r m Set the bookmark for the visited file (once of)
C-x r l Bookmark select
Key bindings
C-x RIGHT switch buffer
C-w Cut (same as Ctrl-X in Windows)
M-w Copy (same as Ctrl-C in Windows)
C-y Paste (same as Ctrl-V in Windows)
C-k Cut until end of line
C-x c Exit
C-x s Save
C-x o Select OTHER window
C-x 0 Close THIS window
C-x 1 Close all but THIS ONE
C-x 2 Split HOR
C-x 3 Split VERT
C-x c-b Buffer list, then d -> kill, x -> execute)
C-x b Buffer switch
C-x r-l (lowercase "L") Bookmark list
F3 Start recording macro
F4 Stop recording / Play
M-% Search / replace
M-s o show all
Entries in ~/.emacs
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
(setq ring-bell-function 'ignore)
;; ido mode
(setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)
(setq ido-everywhere t)
(ido-mode 1)
(defalias 'list-buffers 'ibuffer) ;; make ibuffer default
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-;") 'switch-window) ;; same as C-x o
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c w") 'visual-line-mode) ;; handy when working with text files
References and further reading
[1] GNU Emacs website https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
[2] Using Emacs Series - videos and posts by Mike Zamansky. https://cestlaz.github.io/stories/emacs/
[3] Org Mode - https://orgmode.org/