Emacs: Jargons (Glossary)

current cursor position. (beginning of file is 1)

A cursor position, that starts text selection.

• Emacs: Jump to Previous Position

Text selection

cut text.

a history of copied text.

• Emacs: Copy Paste, kill-ring

paste

A preference setting, to have text selection highlighted

A preference setting, to have standard undo cut copy paste keys (z x c v)

• Emacs Flaw: cua-mode
• Emacs cua-mode Keybinding Problems

a rectangular area of text.

• Emacs: Edit Column Text, Rectangle

reformat lines so each line is no longer than 70 chars. (aka. hard-wrap lines.)

• Emacs: Hard-Wrap Lines (fill-region)

give argument to command.

• Emacs: Universal Argument (C-u prefix arg)

A opened file, or unsaved new file, or a working area where emacs displays text. Similar to browser's “tab”.

• Emacs: List Buffers

Basically means a opened file. when a buffer's content is from a file, it's said the buffer is visiting the file.

• Emacs: Open, Save, Save As, Close, Quit

open a file.

a setting for a buffer for a specialized task, e.g. edit programing language, view files in a dir, view image, shell, etc.

• Emacs: Major Mode

a specialized setting, usually for all buffers. Think of this as a preference setting.

• Emacs: Minor Mode

a variable that stores a list of functions, to be called when some event happens.

• Emacs Init: Hook

a keyboard shortcut for a command. or, the process of defining one.

• Emacs Keys

a key that exist on lisp keyboards.

by default, it's the Alt key on Microsoft Windows and Linux. ⌥ option key on the Mac.

• Emacs Keys: Meta Key

a key that exist on lisp keyboards.

• Emacs Keys: Super Hyper

Window

A frame in a split window

a special buffer that pops up at bottom to displays prompts and user input.

• Emacs: Minibuffer

the bottom line of the screen that displays messages temporarily. The messages are stored in Emacs: Messages Buffer.

the bar at the bottom of a emacs window, indicating file name and major mode it's in.

• Emacs: Mode Line (Status Bar)

text style. e.g. font, size, coloring, underline, etc.

• Elisp: Font Face

syntax coloring.

• Elisp: Font Lock Mode

little vertical strip area on left and right sides of a window.

sometimes used to display line number or line return symbol to indicate line continuation.

A recursive edit means a command is halted and can be resumed later, usually when a lisp error occurred.

• Emacs: Recursive Edit