May 26, 2019
A Brief History Of The Emacs Text Editor
Richard Stallman created Emacs in late 1976 after combining the MIT lab ‘E’ text editor, with a set of macros to make the text editor easier to use.<sup>1</sup>
The Basics Of Emacs: I have begun to learn the text editor, Emacs, with the use of their in-built tutorials. I have always liked Vim, but would like to learn both in case it become useful later for a future Dev or Dev Ops role. If there’s something I’ve liked so far is the capability of using multiple buffers, as well as the idea to use multiple plugins to treat Emacs truly as an all-in-one OS-like application.
Useful Beginner Emacs Shortcuts:
Moving Around In Emacs:
Ctrl + v: Move Forward One Screenful
Meta + v: Move Backward One Screenful
Ctrl + l: Clear The Screen, And Redisplay The Text (Center, Bottom, Top)
Ctrl + n: Next Line
Ctrl + p: Previous Line
Ctrl + f: Forward One Character
Ctrl + b: Previous One Character
Meta + f: Forward One Word
Meta + b: Backward One Word
Saving And Quitting In Emacs:
Ctrl + x; Ctrl + s: Save Your File
Ctrl + x; Ctrl + c: Quit Emacs
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