Useful Emacs Tips
Tagged as: Feb 20These Emacs tips might be useful to somebody out there. And at the very least it will provide me with a place to look up things that I have already searched for before. Now that I look at them, they seem rather rudimentary but far be it from me to keep something that I found useful from others.
- (I’ve been trying to figure this one out for awhile.) To search for a string from one buffer in another buffer:
- C-w (or M-w) the search string
- move to the buffer to search in
- C-s
- M-y
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Synchronized scrolling: M-x scroll-all-mode
- Scroll other window:
- M-C-v scrolls down
- M-C-V scrolls up
- Scroll other window:
- Repeat a command numerous times: M-(number) (command) where you fill in (number) with a number and (command) with the command that you want to repeat. To use a number that is not a single digit you hold M while pressing the first number and then release M while pressing the rest of the numbers. An example: to kill 10 lines you would do: M-1 0 C-k.
Notes:
M is the Meta key (usually Alt or Esc depending on your operating system/settings)
C is the Control key
Emacs can be great if you know how to use it. 
this has nothing to do with eMacs whatsoever!
thanks for that
oohhhh… yes. it all makes so much more sense now… =P
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