Practical Emacs Tutorial

Table of Contents

Quick Start

• Download
• Show Version
• Launch
• Exit
• Graphical Menu
• Basic Key Shortcuts
• How-To
• Fun Features
• Microsoft Windows Tips

Font

• Change Font Size

Split Window

• Split Window

File

• Open, Save, Save As, Close, Quit
• File Manager, dired
• Batch Rename Files
• Bookmark
• Open Recently Opened File

Buffer

• List Buffers
• Switch Buffer

Copy Paste

• Select Text (mark and region)
• Copy Paste, kill-ring
• Copy to Register

Search Text

• Search Text
• Highlight Word, Line
• List Matching Lines
• Search Text in Directory

Find Replace

• Find Replace in Current File
• Find Replace Text in Directory
• Regular Expression

Unicode

• File Encoding
• Insert Unicode Character
• Input Method
• Newline Convention

Whitespace

• Indentation Commands
• Delete Trailing Whitespace
• Show Whitespaces

Sort

• Sort Lines

Rectangle Edit

• Comment, Uncomment
• Edit Column Text, Rectangle
• Align Text Column

Shell

• Run Shell in Emacs

View Special File

• View Image File
• Show Image Thumbnails
• View Info Page
• View man Page
• Eww Web Browser

Org Mode

• Outline, org-mode Intro

Name Completion

• Icomplete, Minibuffer Name Completion
• fido-mode (Minibuffer Name Completion)
• fido-mode vs icomplete-mode

• Name Completion
• Hippie Expand
• Abbrev Mode

Emacs Efficiency

• Key Macro
• Jump to Previous Position
• Repeat Last Command
• Fullscreen vs Multiple Windows
• Narrow to Region
• Master Tips

Misc

• Terminal vs Graphical User Interface
• Command to Open Menu
• Emergency vim Tutorial
• Chinese Input
• Spell Check
• Edit Tables
• Version Control Commands (git)

• Bold, Underline, Color Texts (Persistent Highlight)
• File Variables (Run Elisp Code When File Opens)

Emacs Principles

• Principle, Command, Keys
• Jargons (Glossary)
• Minibuffer
• Mode Line
• Universal Argument (prefix arg)