Fun with Emacs

You probably heard that emacs can do lots of things. This page shows some.

Emacs Tetris

Alt+x tetris to start it. Use arrow keys to move the blocks.

Alt+x kill-buffer to close it.

Split Windows

You can split your window into two or more panes, vertically or horizontally. [see Emacs: Split Windows]

View Calendar

Directory Navigation and Managing Files

To start, Alt+x dired, then, type a dir path. To exit, press q. See Emacs: File Manager, dired.

Pretty Colors

Alt+x list-colors-display

Command Line Interface (aka Shell)

Alt+x shell to start a shell interface. [see Emacs: Run Shell in Emacs]

LISP in Emacs

Sometime you hear that emacs has the artificial intelligence language LISP built-in. That's right. Here's how you can run a short example.

[see Evaluate Emacs Lisp Code]

In emacs, open a file, any file. In the file, type (+ 1 2), then, select the whole text, then Alt+x eval-region. You will see the result “3”. CONGRADULATIONS, you've just evaluated a lisp program!

See: Emacs Lisp Basics.

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