Xah Emacs Commands

General Purpose Commands

Buffer

• Emacs: New Empty Buffer 💠
• Emacs: Next/Previous User Buffer 💠

File

• Emacs: Open Last Closed File 💠
• Emacs: Open File Path Under Cursor 💠
• Emacs: Copy File Path of Current Buffer 💠
• Emacs: Delete Current File 💠
• Emacs: Backup Current File 💠
• Emacs: Open File in External App 💠

• Emacs: Delete Backup in Current Dir Recursively 💠

Search

• Emacs: Search Current Word 💠

Move Cursor

• Emacs: Move Cursor by Text Block 💠
• Emacs: Move Cursor to Punctuation 💠

Select Text

• Emacs: Select Line 💠
• Emacs: Select Text Between Quotes 💠
• Emacs: Select Text Block 💠
• Emacs: Extend Selection 💠

Delete

• Emacs: Delete Text Block 💠

Copy Paste

• Emacs: Copy Current Line 💠
• Emacs: Copy Buffer or Selection 💠
• Emacs: Paste or Paste Previous 💠
• Emacs: Show Copy History (kill-ring) 💠

• Emacs: Copy to Register 1 💠
• Emacs: Append to Register 1 💠
• Emacs: Clear Register 1 💠

• Emacs: Copy Rectangle Region to kill-ring 💠

Whitespace

• Emacs: Delete Whitespace around Cursor 💠
• Emacs: Clean Empty Lines 💠

• Emacs: Remove Punctuation Extra Spaces 💠

misc

• Emacs: Cycle Marks (Cycle local mark ring) 💠

Insert Things

• Emacs: Insert Date Time 💠
• Emacs: xah-insert-unicode 💠
• Emacs: Insert A to Z Vertically 💠
• Emacs: Insert Random Number or String 💠
• Emacs: Insert Random UUID 💠

• Emacs: Interactive Abbrev 💠

Edit Brackets

• Emacs: Insert Brackets by Pair 💠
• Emacs: Delete Brackets by Pair 💠
• Emacs: Move Cursor to Bracket 💠
• Emacs: Change Brackets 💠

Useful for Programers

• Emacs: Run Current File 💠
• Emacs: Compile TypeScript File 💠

• Emacs: Cycle Hyphen Lowline Space 💠
• Emacs: Escape Quotes Command 💠

• Emacs: Toggle Comment Current Line 💠
• Emacs: Quote Lines 💠
• Emacs: Spaces to New Lines 💠

• Emacs: Hexadecimal to Decimal 💠

• Emacs: Open Python Doc 💠

Reformat Code

• Emacs: Reformat Lines for Source Code 💠

• Emacs: Format Python Code 💠
• Emacs: Format JavaScript Code 💠
• Emacs: Format Golang Code 💠
• Emacs: Format PowerShell Code 💠
• Emacs: Format CSS Code 💠

HTML Commands

• Xah Emacs HTML Commands

CSS

• Emacs: CSS. Insert Random Color 💠
• Emacs: CSS. Convert Color, RGB to HSL 💠
• Emacs: CSS. Syntax Color Color Property Values 💠

Editing Commands for Writers

• Emacs: Toggle Letter Case 💠
• Emacs: Change to Title Case 💠
• Emacs: Upcase Sentences 💠

• Emacs: Replace Straight Quotes to Curly 💠
• Emacs: Remove Accent Marks 💠
• Emacs: Replace Invisible Unicode Chars 💠

• Emacs: Add Period to Line Ends 💠
• Emacs: Reformat to Sentence Lines 💠

• Emacs: Twitterfy 💠

• Emacs: xah-fix-datetime 💠

• Emacs: Replace Greek Letter Names to Unicode 💠
• Emacs: Convert Chinese/Japanese Full-Width/Half-Width Punctuations 💠

• Emacs: Add Brackets to CAPITALIZED words 💠

Dired

• Emacs: Dired Sort File by Time, Size 💠
• Emacs: dired Rename File, Space to Hyphen or Lowline 💠
• Emacs: Convert File Line Ending 💠

• Emacs: Dired, Show All Subdirectories 💠

• Emacs: Dired Show Human Readable File Size 💠

• Emacs: HTML. Move Image File 💠
• Emacs: Categorize Files to Directories (Move File to Dir) 💠

• Emacs: Open Marked Files in Dired 💠

Font and Spacing

• Emacs: Change Default Font Size by Command, for Current Session 💠
• Emacs: Cycle Fonts by Command 💠

• Emacs: Novel Reading Mode 💠
• Emacs: Toggle Line Spacing Command 💠

Color, Theme, Display

• Emacs: Toggle Background Color 💠
• Emacs: Toggle Theme 💠

• Emacs: Show Form Feed as Line 💠

unsorted

• Emacs: Latin to Gothic (𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠) 💠
• Emacs: Latin to Rune (ᚱᚢᚿᛂ) 💠
• Emacs: Latin to Braille ⠎⠕⠍⠑ 💠
• Emacs: Convert to Full-Width Characters 💠

• Emacs: rotate 13 cipher 💠

• Emacs: Zip Dir in Dired 💠

• Elisp: Validate Matching Brackets 💠

• Emacs: Remove Wikipedia Square Bracket Citations 💠

• Elisp: Walk Directory by Depth 💠

• Elisp: Bionic Reading 💠
• Elisp: Convert Color Formats: RGB HSL HSV

Commands Do thing-at-point

• Elisp: Count Lines, Words, Chars
• Elisp: Refactoring, Move Code to Files 💠
• Elisp: Command to Update RSS/Atom Webfeed
• Elisp: Writing a Interactive Command to Update HTML Page Tags

Misc

• Toggle Something
• Uncolor Region/Buffer
• Mouse Click to Highlight Matching Words
• URL Percent Decode/Encode

Script Examples

• Write grep in Elisp
• Find Replace Variations
• Find String Inside HTML Tag
• Check Brackets Balance
• Generate Links Report
• Generate Sitemap
• Archive Website For Reader Download
• Process File line-by-line
• Text-Soup Automation
• Split HTML Annotation
• Fixing Dead Links
• Elisp vs Perl: Validate Local File Links
• Transform Page Tag
• Transform HTML FAQ Tags
• Transform HTML Tags
• “figure” to “figcaption”
• “span.w” to “b”