Xah Emacs Tutorial

Working with Files

• Dired Basics
• List Buffers
• Switch Buffers
• Open File in External App
• Bookmarks
• Open Recent File Fast
• Renaming Files
• Save/Restore Opened Files

Find ＆ Replace

• Find ＆ Replace
• Emacs Regex
• Find/Replace on Files
• Search ＆ Highlight Words
• Searching Text in Files

Tab, Indentation, Whitespace

• Tabs, Space, Indentation Setup
• Make Whitespaces Visible
• Newline Representations ^M ^J ^L
• Visual Line Mode
• Novel Reading Mode

Editing Tricks

• Copy/Paste history
• List/Delete/Highlight Lines, Sort
• Wrap Lines
• Rectangular Edit, Align
• camelCase ＆ pot_hole
• Align Text ＆ Sort
• Edit Tables

Common Tasks

• Using shell #!

• Writing Outline: org-mode
• Using Templates (yasnippet)
• Using git in emacs (magit)
• Lookup References
• Working with Unicode ♥

Working with HTML

• HTML Tips
• Inserting HTML Tags
• Working with CSS Color
• Emacs as Image Viewer
• View Image Thumbnails

Emacs Keys ⌨

• Keyboard Macro Basics
• Emacs Keys Overview
• Key Layout Diagram
• How to Define Your Own Keys

Productivity

• Long Term Emacs Productivity Tips
• Using Abbrev Mode
• Use Alias to Increase Productivity
• Repeat Last Command

Editing Convenience

• Copy/Cut Current Line
• Single Key to Delete Whole Line
• Move Cursor to Beginning of Line or Block
• Move Cursor by Text Block
• Move cursor by Code Section (^L)
• Jump to Brackets ＆ Quotes
• Jump to Punctuations
• How to Color Nested Brackets
• Insert Brackets by Pair

• Manage Split Windows
• Screen Flow Side-by-Side
• Effective Windows Management
• Emacs: Full-Screen vs Multiple Window
• Best Undo/Redo Mode

Setting Up Emacs Init

• How to Install Packages
• Emacs 24 Package System ELPA
• Associate a File with a Major Mode
• How to Turn a Mode on/off/toggle?
• Organize Your Emacs Init
• Byte Compile Elisp, Auto byte-compile
• Determine OS, Version, Host Name
• Check If a Package is Loaded
• Emacs Customize System
• Set Environment Variables within Emacs
• Avoid Lambda in Hook
• Emacs: How to Set Mouse Buttons ＆ Wheel

Customization Settings

• Advanced dired Tips
• Set Backup into a Directory
• Stop Cursor Going into Minibuffer Prompt
• Save Cursor Position
• Default Window Size ＆ Properties
• How to Set a Color Theme
• How to Set a Theme Depending on Mode?
• How to List ＆ Set Font
• Quickly Switch Fonts

Build Emacs, New Features

• Building Emacs on Linux
• Build Emacs from git
• New Features in Emacs 24.4
• New Features in Emacs 24.1
• New Features in Emacs 23

• icomplete vs ido
• iswitch vs ido
• Name Completion Features ＆ Packages
• perl-mode vs cperl-mode
• Show lambda as λ
• Emacs: Using Eww Web Browser
• Emacs Chinese Input
• Emacs: New Empty Buffer

External Packages

• How to Define Templates in YASnippet
• Emacs YASnippet Tip: Expand Whole hyphenated-word as Input
• Dired Plus mode
• List of Emacs Starter Kits
• What's Best Setup for Coding {Pyhton, Java, C++, Web Dev, …}?
• Using Sublime Text Minimap in Emacs

• Emacs Commandments
• Emacs Misc Tips
• How to Add Menu in Emacs
• Indenting Python Code
• Emacs as Word Processor: Bold and Highlight Text
• Emacs Online Resources and Communities 2011
• Emacs Edit Exercise: puthash Unicode
• Emacs Exercise: Generate Columns A to Z
• Emacs Regex Quirk: Matching Beginning/End of Line/String/Buffer
• Emacs 24 Common Lisp Package Name Change
• Emergency vi (vi tutorial)