Subject: Emacs quick tips
From: Mike Barsalou (mbarsalou@aidea.org)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 08:07:25 AKST
Here is another great article from Tech Republic:
QUICK KEYS IN EMACS
By default, there are two text editors installed on most Linux systems:
vi and Emacs. Today we'll focus on some of the common keystrokes in
Emacs, in order to help you quickly modify a file.
Type this syntax to edit a file with Emacs:
# emacs [filename]
This will get you into the text-editing screen. You can use the arrow
keys to move around in the file, as you would for most text editors. You
can use the [Page Up], [Page Down], [Home], and [End] keys for their
respective purposes. There are also certain keystrokes you can use to
navigate
to text in the file, which include:
* [ESC]f to move forward one word
* [ESC]b to move backward one word
* [ESC]a to move to the beginning of a line press
* [ESC]e to move to the end of a line press
* [CTRL]k to delete text from the cursor to the end of the line (This
keystroke also stores deleted text in a buffer.)
* [CTRL]y to paste the deleted text (known as the "yank" command)
Here are two Emacs sequences:
* [CTRL]x, [CTRL]s to save a file
* [CTRL]x, [CTRL]c to exit Emacs
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