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Emacs is a useful word processor for writers with commands for opening, saving, and printing files. It allows moving the cursor, selecting text, and undoing/redoing actions. Windows and buffers can be manipulated. Text can be searched and replaced incrementally. Spelling can be checked. Keyboard macros can be created and run on text.

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Emacs Writers Cheatsheet PDF

Emacs is a useful word processor for writers with commands for opening, saving, and printing files. It allows moving the cursor, selecting text, and undoing/redoing actions. Windows and buffers can be manipulated. Text can be searched and replaced incrementally. Spelling can be checked. Keyboard macros can be created and run on text.

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The Woodnotes Emacs Cheat Sheet for Writers (not Coders)

Emacs is a great word processor for authors and writers: these are the most useful commands for authors of prose. Hint: set text-mode before you begin.
C-x 0 C-x 1 C-x 4 C-f (delete-window) (delete-other-windows) (find-file-other-window) kill entire line C-w kill region (the equivalent of cut) M-w copy region to kill ring (equivalent of copy) M-z char kill through next occurrence of char C-y yank back last thing killed M-y replace last yank with previous kill C-<, C-> Select to beginning, end of buffer (kill-entire-line)

Files (Opening, Saving, Printing)


C-x C-f read a file into Emacs C-x C-s save a file back to disk C-x s save all files C-x i insert contents of another file into this buffer C-x C-v replace this file with the file you really want C-x C-w write buffer to a file with another name M-1 M-x ps-print-buffer-with-faces print buffer to a postscript file open file in a separate frame (find-file-other-frame)

Cursor Movement
Entity to Move Over character word line sentence paragraph page line beginning/end buffer beginning (or end) Backward C-b M-b C-p M-a M-{ C-x [ C-a M-< Forward C-f M-f C-n M-e M-} C-x ] C-e M->

M-m (back-to-indentation) Move (forward or back) to the first non blank character on the current line C-u 8 C-f moves forward eight characters C-x C-x Exchange point and mark (move between ends of selection)

Undo/Redo
C-x u or C-_ Undo M-x redo

Window (Frame) and Buffer Commands


C-x 2 (split-window-vertically) Open another window below this one C-x 3 (split-window-horizontally) Open another window beside this one C-x 5 0 delete a frame C-x 5 o shift focus to other frame C-x ^, C-x v Grow/Shrink window vertically C-x {, C-x } Grow/Shrink window horizontally. (delete-frame) (other-frame)

Scrolling
previous/next screen scroll left/right center current line scroll other window goto line M-v C-x < C-u C-l or C-l M-C v M-g C-v C-x >

Transposition and Case Change


C-t Transpose two characters M-t Transpose two words C-x C-t Transpose two lines Forward C-d M-d C-k M-k C-x C-u Make capitals C-x C-l Make lower case Esc-c Capitalize word (transpose-chars) (transpose-words) (transpose-lines) (upcase region) (downcase region)

Cut/Paste (Kill/Yank)
Entity to Kill character word line (to end of) sentence Backward DEL M-DEL C-x DEL

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Esc-u, Esc-d Upcase word, downcase word

M-\ (delete-horizontal-space) Delete all spaces and tabs around point. M-SPC (just-one-space) Delete all spaces and tabs around point, leaving one space. C-o Insert blank line at cursor. C-a C-o Tab Insert indented line before the current line. C-e C-j Insert indented line after current line. C-x C-o Remove all blank lines except one M-^ Join current line to the previous line (delete-indentation)

Search/Replace and Incremental Search


C-s, C-r Incremental search forward/backward C-M-s Regular expression search C-M-r Reverse regular expression search M-p Select previous search string M-n Select next later search string RET Exit incremental search DEL Undo effect of last character C-g Abort current search Use C-s or C-r again to repeat the search in either direction. If Emacs is still searching, C-g cancels only the part not done.

Accumulating Text in Buffers


(append-to-buffer) Append region to the contents of a specified buffer. (prepend-to-buffer) Prepend region to the contents of a specified buffer. (copy-to-buffer) Copy region into a specified buffer, deleting that buffer's old contents. (insert-buffer) Insert the contents of a specified buffer into current buffer at point. (append-to-file) Append region to the contents of a specified file, at the end.

Indentation and Tabs


TAB Indent the current line "appropriately" according to mode. In text mode, TAB key is set to indent-relative C-j Perform RET followed by TAB. C-M-o (split-line) Split the current line at point and move 2nd half downward C-M-\ Indent several lines to the same column C-x TAB Shift a block of lines rigidly right or left (indent-region) (indent-rigidly)

Formatting Margins, etc.


C-x . (set-fill-prefix) Determines which character will start all lines (like >) C-x f Set margin (default: 70) C-u 20 C-x f Set margin to 20 characters. M-q (fill-region) Reformat a paragraph, hard wrapping text. Set using C-x f (auto-fill-mode) (fill-individual-paragraphs) Format several paragraphs, each individually (fill-region-as-paragraph) Format the entire region selected as one paragraph, combining individual paragraphs.

Spelling
(flyspell-mode ) Toggle on the fly spell checking in this buffer Spell check the whole buffer (flyspell-buffer)

M-i (tab-to-tab-stop) Indent from point to the next pre-specified tab stop column (indent-relative) Indent from point to under an indentation point in the previous line. Edit the tab stops (edit-tab-stops)

M-$ (ispell-word) Check and correct spelling of the word at point M-TAB (ispell-complete-word) Complete word before point based on the current dictionary Spell-check the active region or the current buffer. (ispell)

Editing, Spaces & Blank Lines


(canonically-space-region) Remove extra spaces between words in region. (checkdoc-rogue-spaces) Find extra spaces at the end of lines in the current file.

(ispell-buffer) Check and correct spelling of each word in the buffer. (ispell-region) Check and correct spelling of each word in the region. (ispell-change-dictionary) Change the ispell dictionary to another language

(tabify), (untabify) Convert all spaces into appropriate # of tabs; replace all tabs with appropriate # of spaces.

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Macros
C-x ( Start defining a keyboard macro C-x ) End the definition of a keyboard macro (start-kbd-macro) (end-kbd-macro)

Bookmarks
C-x r m Set bookmark Jump to a bookmark (bookmark-jump)

C-x C-m f undecided-unix

Remove Hard Wrapping


(defun unscrewup-paragraph (beg end) (interactive "r") (shell-command-on-region beg end "fmt -w2000" nil t))

C-x e (call-last-kbd-macro') Execute the most recent keyboard macro C-u C-x ( Re-execute last keyboard macro, then edit (name-last-kbd-macro) Name for the session the most recently defined macro. Insert in the buffer a macro's Lisp code. (insert-kbd-macro) (edit-kbd-macro).

Help
C-h k C-h b C-h a (describe key) (describe-bindings) (describe-apropos)

Remove messy indentation


C-u 0 C-M-\

Other Misc Stuff for .emacs file

C-x C-k Edit a previously defined keyboard macro

(apply-macro-to-region-lines) Run the last keyboard macro on each complete line in the region.

File Coding Systems (Translating DOS-UnixMac etc.)


C-x C-m C C-x C-m f C-x C-m l C-x C-m t C-x C-m x C-x C-m C-\ describe-coding-system set-buffer-file-coding-system set-language-environment set-terminal-coding-system set-selection-coding-system set-input-method

(global-hl-line-mode 1) (show-paren-mode t) (setq transient-mark-mode t) (tool-bar-mode -1) (menu-bar-mode -1) (set-default-font "-adobe-new century schoolbookbold-r-normal14-140-75-75-p-87-iso8859-1")

Key Bindings
Add lines like the following in your .emacs file:

(global-set-key [f1] 'goto-line)


binds the key F1

(global-set-key [?\M-\l] 'next-line)


binds the key Alt-L

C-x return C describe-coding-system You can use return instead of C-m for any of these.

Prefix text with a character like >


C-x .[do this on a line containing the char] M-q [fill paragraph using fill prefix]

(global-set-key [?\C-x ?\w] 'beginning-of-buffer)


binds the key C-x w

Some Cool Functions


Convert Dos to Unix Line Endings/Remove ^Ms
M-% C-q C-m Return C-q C-j Return

M-x means hold down the ALT button and press X. C-u means hold down the CTRL button and press u. Anything listed in parenthesis is a command accessed by typing M-x and then entering the name of the command.

Version history:

9 December 2008: Updates to macros, now based on emacs 22. Major reformat/reorganization 27 January 2005: Original version

Last updated: 9 December 2008

by Randall Wood

www.therandymon.com

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