The Art of Emacs

Tricks

M-x flyspell-mode Online word spell checking, *M-$* to check current word
C-h m Get help, manual and shortkey of current mode
M-x toggle-debug-on-quit 使用这条命令后，每次卡住后，马上按C-g，就会打出当前执行函数的调用栈，是哪个函数造成的卡住，也就一目了然了。然后根据这个造成卡住的函数属于哪个扩展包，再分别想解决办法
F5 Goto-line
M-x load-file ~/.emacs Modify emacs and make it effect without reboot
M-x artist-mode Draw shapes in geek style
M-x insert-table Insert the table as you wanted
C-up/down/left/right Resize the split window
C-j Newline and indent
C-x z

repeat last command

M-x eval-buffer

load .emacs without restarting it

M-x dired to open current file
R to rename
C-x k to (go back to original buffer)
C-c C-e b

publish, export to HTML

Navigating & Editing

M-< M->

Begin of buffer/ End of buffer

C-v M-v Page Down and Page Up
C-M-\ Auto typesetting
C-Backspace Kill a word backward
M-x replace _oldstr_ RET _newstr_ VET replace specific string
C-h f func_name Get description of the function
C-x h select all
C-x o Switch between windows
M-< M-> Move to the head/end of text
C-L Move cursor to the center of the window
M-= Word count
C-v M-v PageUp and PageDown
M-a M-e Head of sentence, tail of sentence
M-< M-> Head or tail of entire buffer
M-= Word count

ORG-mode Tips

Basic keys

C-c C-x C-v View inline picture
C-c C-t So, let’s mark the TODO item DONE by moving the cursor onto that line and hitting C-c C-t, which runs the command org-todo.
C-c C-s C-c C-s to run org-schedule.
C-c a t Press C-c a t to enter the global todo list.
C-c C-c Add tags as ordered.
Description List use ‘ :: ’ to separate the term from the description.
Agenda files ‘C-c [’ Add current file to the list of agenda files.
Switch buffers: C-x C-b
C-u C-c . Insert timestamp
C-u TAB Switch Overview/Content/Details
Insert Picture

Name in it [[]]

Subscripts and superscripts

10^30, R_{sun}

Navigating

C-c C-u

up

C-c C-f/b

forward or back in same level

C-c C-p/n

jump to previous/next heading

GTD

M-shift-RET Start a TODO headline.
S-LEFT/RIGHT Change states between TODO/DONE/INPROGRESS
C-c . Add a timestamp, ‘S-LEFT/RIGHT’ to change at cursor by one day.
C-c C-d to insert a DEADLINE keyword with a stamp.
C-c C-s Insert a SCHEDULED keyword with a stamp.

Mess

Reference

David O’Toole Org tutorial

Syntax

make words bold, italic , underlined, code and verbatim, and, if you must, ‘+strike-through+’.

insert code

<s tab

CUA-mode Tips

M-n Give column a increase number
M C-\ or ESC ESC ESC Escape mark region
C-? Get basic hints

Dired

Intro to dired
C-x d Open directory
Cheatlist
- q Close the dir
- C Copy file
- R Rename file
- D Delete file
- + create a new dir
- Z compress/decompress the file by gzip
- m mark a file
- u unmark
- U unmark all marked
- % m mark by pattern (regex)
- g refresh dir listing
- ^ go to parent dir
C-j Stop going to deeper directory

Lisp

C-j 运行Lisp语句

l

Programming

C++ autocomplete: Ctrl+;
tm : insert current time
M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system RET undecided-unix