Emacs Basics Tips

How to search text?

• Emacs: Search Text in Current File
• Emacs: Search Text in Directory

How to find replace?

• Emacs: Find Replace in Current File

How to find replace for all files in a dir?

• Emacs: Interactive Find Replace Text in Directory

How to Comment, Uncomment

• Emacs: Comment, Uncomment

How to add a prefix to every line? (such as # or //)

• Emacs: Edit Column Text, Rectangle Commands

How to delete the first few n chars of every line?

• Emacs: Edit Column Text, Rectangle Commands

How to Insert a Literal Tab or Newline

• Emacs: How to Insert a Tab Character or Newline

How to change file line endings between Windows/Linux/Mac?

• Emacs: Change File Line Ending Between Windows/Unix/Mac

How to record keystrokes?

• Emacs: Keyboard Macro

How to move thru camelCaseWords?

• Emacs: Move Cursor by camelCase, snake_case

How to have spell-checker turned on?

• Emacs: Spell Checking

How to find a command?

• Emacs Principles, Command and Keys

How to List Lines

• Emacs: List/Delete Matching Lines

How to Highlight Words

• Emacs Highlighting Commands

How to Sort Lines

• Emacs: List/Delete Matching Lines

Delete Trailing White Spaces

• Emacs: Delete Trailing Whitespace

Make Spaces and Tabs Visible

• Emacs: Make Whitespaces Visible

Multiple Clipboards

• Emacs: Copy to Register

No restarting emacs when add to init file

Just select the new emacs lisp code, then Alt+x eval-region.

[see Emacs: Init File Tutorial]

Start a second shell

Ctrl+u Alt+x shell.

[see Emacs: Run Shell in Emacs]

Revert/Refresh File from Last Saved

• Emacs: Refresh/Revert File

Open File as Hexadecimal

Alt+x hexl-find-file. If the file is already opened, Alt+x hexl-mode. [see also Emacs: Set Default Major Mode]

Set background color

• Emacs: Set Color Theme