Xah Emacs Commands

General Purpose Commands

Buffer

• Emacs: New Empty Buffer 📜
• Emacs: Next/Previous User Buffer 📜

File

• Emacs: Open Last Closed File 📜
• Emacs: Open File Path Under Cursor 📜
• Emacs: Copy File Path of Current Buffer 📜
• Emacs: Delete Current File 📜
• Emacs: Backup Current File 📜
• Emacs: Open File in External App 📜

• Emacs: Delete Backup in Current Dir Recursively 📜

Search

• Emacs: Search Current Word 📜

Move Cursor

• Emacs: Move Cursor by Text Block 📜
• Emacs: Move Cursor to Punctuation 📜

Select Text

• Emacs: Select Line 📜
• Emacs: Select Text Between Quotes 📜
• Emacs: Select Text Block 📜
• Emacs: Extend Selection 📜

Delete

• Emacs: Delete Text Block 📜

Copy Paste

• Emacs: Copy Current Line 📜
• Emacs: Copy Buffer or Selection 📜
• Emacs: Paste or Paste Previous 📜
• Emacs: Show Copy History (kill-ring) 📜

• Emacs: Copy, Paste, Append, Clear, Register 1 📜

• Emacs: Copy Rectangle Region to kill-ring 📜

Whitespace

• Emacs: Delete Whitespace around Cursor 📜
• Emacs: Clean Empty Lines 📜

• Emacs: Remove Punctuation Extra Spaces 📜

misc

• Emacs: Cycle Marks (Cycle local mark ring) 📜

Insert Things

• Emacs: Insert Date Time 📜
• Emacs: xah-insert-unicode 📜
• Emacs: Insert A to Z Vertically 📜
• Emacs: Insert Random Number or String 📜
• Emacs: Insert Random UUID 📜

• Emacs: Interactive Abbrev 📜

Edit Brackets

• Emacs: Insert Brackets by Pair 📜
• Emacs: Delete Brackets by Pair 📜
• Emacs: Move Cursor to Bracket 📜
• Emacs: Change Brackets 📜

Useful for Programers

• Emacs: Run Current File 📜
• Emacs: Compile TypeScript File 📜

• Emacs: Cycle Hyphen Lowline Space 📜
• Emacs: Escape Quotes Command 📜

• Emacs: Toggle Comment Current Line 📜
• Emacs: Quote Lines 📜
• Emacs: Spaces to New Lines 📜

• Emacs: Command to Convert Hexadecimal Decimal 📜

• Emacs: Open Python Doc 📜

• Emacs: Jump to Error Line (xah-goto-line) 📜

Reformat Code

• Emacs: Reformat Lines for Source Code 📜

• Emacs: Format Python Code 📜
• Emacs: Format JavaScript Code 📜
• Emacs: Format Golang Code 📜
• Emacs: Format PowerShell Code 📜
• Emacs: Format CSS Code 📜

HTML Commands

• Xah Emacs HTML Commands

CSS

• Emacs: CSS. Insert Random Color 📜
• Emacs: CSS. Convert Color, RGB to HSL 📜
• Emacs: Syntax Color CSS Color Values 📜

Editing Commands for Writers

• Emacs: Toggle Letter Case 📜
• Emacs: Change to Title Case 📜
• Emacs: Upcase Sentences 📜

• Emacs: Replace Straight Quotes to Curly 📜
• Emacs: Remove Accent Marks 📜
• Emacs: Replace Invisible Unicode Chars 📜

• Emacs: Add Period to Line Ends 📜
• Emacs: Reformat to Sentence Lines 📜

• Emacs: Twitterfy 📜

• Emacs: xah-fix-datetime 📜

• Emacs: Replace Greek Letter Names to Unicode 📜
• Emacs: Convert Chinese/Japanese Full-Width/Half-Width Punctuations 📜

• Emacs: Add Brackets to CAPITALIZED words 📜

Dired

• Emacs: Dired Sort File by Time, Size 📜
• Emacs: dired Rename File, Space to Hyphen or Lowline 📜
• Emacs: Convert File Line Ending 📜

• Emacs: Dired, Show All Subdirectories 📜

• Emacs: Dired Show Human Readable File Size 📜

• Emacs: HTML. Move Image File 📜
• Emacs: Move File to Dir (Categorize Files) 📜

• Emacs: Open Marked Files in Dired 📜

Font and Spacing

• Emacs: Cycle Fonts by Command 📜

• Emacs: Novel Reading Mode 📜
• Emacs: Toggle Line Spacing Command 📜

Color, Theme, Display

• Emacs: Toggle Background Color 📜
• Emacs: Cycle Color Theme, Toggle 📜

• Emacs: Show Form Feed as Line 📜

unsorted

• Elisp: Pipe Function (Function Chain, Composition) 📜

• Emacs: Xah Increment Number 📜

• Emacs: Latin to Gothic (𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠) 📜
• Emacs: Latin to Rune (ᚱᚢᚿᛂ) 📜
• Emacs: Latin to Braille ⠎⠕⠍⠑ 📜
• Emacs: Convert to Full-Width Characters 📜

• Emacs: rotate 13 cipher 📜

• Emacs: Zip Dir in Dired 📜

• Elisp: Validate Matching Brackets 📜

• Emacs: Remove Wikipedia Square Bracket Citations 📜

• Elisp: Walk Directory by Depth 📜

• Elisp: Bionic Reading 📜