Emacs: Use Alias for Fast M-x
In emacs, you can use alias to shorten commands. For example, make frequently used commands just 1 or 2 letters.
Examples of useful alias:
(defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p) ; y or n is enough (defalias 'list-buffers 'ibuffer) ; always use ibuffer
;; make frequently used commands short (defalias 'qrr 'query-replace-regexp) (defalias 'lml 'list-matching-lines) (defalias 'dml 'delete-matching-lines) (defalias 'dnml 'delete-non-matching-lines) (defalias 'dtw 'delete-trailing-whitespace) (defalias 'sl 'sort-lines) (defalias 'rr 'reverse-region) (defalias 'rs 'replace-string) (defalias 'g 'grep) (defalias 'gf 'grep-find) (defalias 'fd 'find-dired) (defalias 'rb 'revert-buffer) (defalias 'sh 'shell) (defalias 'fb 'flyspell-buffer) (defalias 'sbc 'set-background-color) (defalias 'rof 'recentf-open-files) (defalias 'lcd 'list-colors-display) (defalias 'cc 'calc) ; elisp (defalias 'eb 'eval-buffer) (defalias 'er 'eval-region) (defalias 'ed 'eval-defun) (defalias 'eis 'elisp-index-search) (defalias 'lf 'load-file) ; major modes (defalias 'hm 'html-mode) (defalias 'tm 'text-mode) (defalias 'elm 'emacs-lisp-mode) (defalias 'om 'org-mode) (defalias 'ssm 'shell-script-mode) ; minor modes (defalias 'wsm 'whitespace-mode) (defalias 'gwsm 'global-whitespace-mode) (defalias 'vlm 'visual-line-mode) (defalias 'ln 'global-display-line-numbers-mode) ; xah modes (defalias 'xhm 'xah-html-mode) (defalias 'xcm 'xah-css-mode) (defalias 'xem 'xah-elisp-mode) (defalias 'xjm 'xah-js-mode)
Save the above in file and name it my-alias.el
, then put it in your ~/.emacs.d/
directory. Then, in your emacs init file, add:
(load "my-alias")
Note: a keybinding is still faster than M-x alias. However, alias is great for commands that you don't really use that frequently, but maybe once a day.
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