The Basics of Emacs as a Text Editor

Derek Taylor introduces the absolute basics of using GNU Emacs as a text editor.

In this video, I'm going to quickly go through some of the basics of using Emacs, the text editor! REFERENCED: ► gnu.org/software/emacs/ WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? 💰 Patreon: patreon.com/distrotube 💳 Paypal: paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=derek%40di… 🛍️ Amazon: amzn.to/2RotFFi 👕 Teespring: teespring.com/stores/distrotube SOCIAL PLATFORMS: 🗨️ Mastodon: mastodon.technology/@distrotube 💬 IRC: irc://freenode #distrotube 👫 Reddit: reddit.com/r/DistroTube/ DT ON THE WEB: 🕸️ Website: distrotube.com/ 🌐 Gopherhole: gopher://distro.tube 📁 GitLab: gitlab.com/dwt1 FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I USE: 📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: obsproject.com/ 🎬 Kdenlive: kdenlive.org 🎨 GIMP: gimp.org/ 🔊 Audacity: audacityteam.org/ 💻 VirtualBox: virtualbox.org/ Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys! --- Some of the commands I will go over include: (1) Opening Documents C-x C-f for find file You can type full path to a file or create a new document. You could also just open the path to a directory and find the file. (2) C-x C-+, C-x C-- For Zoom In/Out (3) Basic Navigation C-n, C-p, C-f, C-b M-f, M-b (forward/back by words) C-a, C-e (beginning/end of line) M-a, M-e (backwards/forwards by sentence) M-{, M-} (backwards/forwards by paragraph) M-"LESS THAN", M-"GREATER THAN" (beginning/end of file) M-g g (goto line number) ESC-number C-n/p/f/b (perform motion that number of times) (4) Cut, Copy and Paste C-space to select text to copy/cut C-w cut highlighted M-w copy highlighted C-y paste C-k cut to end of line? C-x backspace, M-k (backwards/forwards delete the current line) M-z character cuts to that character ESC-number ESC-d deletes that number of words C-x u undo C-h v kill-ring C-x 0 to close the kill-ring window C-y Esc-y to cycle through kill-ring for paste (4) Buffers C-x b select another buffer C-x C-b list all buffers C-x k kill a buffer (5) Case change M-c capitalizes a word M-u uppercase word M-l lowercase word (6) Spell Check M-$ check current word sudo pacman -S aspell-en (for Arch users) (7) Query replace M-% (shift-5) Will only look forward in the file! RET exits the query replace (8) Search C-s to search forward C-r to search backward (9) Splits C-x 2 Horizontal Split C-x 3 Vertical Split C-x 0 Close window C-x 4f Opens file in other window C-x o moves cursor to next frame (10) Save and Exit C-x C-s Save C-x C-c Quit