Practical Emacs Tutorial

This tutorial is designed for writers, scientists, engineers, to get started on emacs quickly. Each page teaches you something practical you can use right away. No emacs jargons. No need programing experience.

Quick Start

1. Where to Download?
2. Fun with Emacs
3. Emacs First Day
4. Emacs Keys
5. Basic Tips
6. Less-known Tips
7. Emacs on Windows

Files

1. Split Window
2. List Buffers
3. Switch Buffer
4. Dired Basics
5. Bookmarks
6. Open Recent File
7. Renaming Files
8. File Encoding FAQ

Find / Replace

1. Search / Highlight
2. Search in Files
3. Find Replace
4. Find Replace in Files
5. Emacs Regex

Editing Text

1. Copy/Paste
2. Copy to Register
3. Completion
4. Jump to Previous Mark
5. Move Cursor by camelCase
6. Wrap Lines
7. Rectangle Edit
8. Delete Trailing Whitespace
9. Abbreviation
10. Keyboard Macro
11. Align Text
12. List / Delete / Highlight / Sort Lines
13. Unicode 🚀

Tab, Indentation, Whitespace

1. Tabs, Space, Indentation Setup
2. Make Whitespaces Visible
3. Newline Representations ^M ^J ^L
4. Visual Line Mode
5. toggle-word-wrap

Common Tasks

1. shell #!
2. Spell Checking
3. View man Page
4. View Info Page
5. View Images
6. View Image Thumbnails
7. Eww Browser

org mode

1. Org Markup
2. Org Outline
3. Org Embed Code
4. Org Todo

Working with HTML

1. HTML Tips
2. Insert HTML Tag
3. Working with CSS Color

Build Emacs

1. Build Emacs on Linux
2. Build Emacs from git

Packages

1. Using magit for git

how-to

1. Emergency vi
2. ASCII Diagram
3. Command to Open Menu
4. Edit Tables
5. Emacs Chinese Input

Misc

1. Long Term Productivity Tips
2. Manage Split Windows
3. Effective Windows Management
4. GUI vs Terminal
5. Screen Flow Side-by-Side
6. What's the difference between {shell, term, ansi-term, eshell}?
7. Why Run Shell in Emacs?
8. Repeat Last Prompted Command

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For experienced emacs users or programers, see Practical Emacs Lisp. Knowing a little elisp goes a long way.

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