[macos+emacs] install and configure Emacs

knowler commented 4 years ago

If my vim-brain can handle this. Will dump notes here.

knowler commented 4 years ago

For now, using the GUI seems to be easier than the terminal since there is a lot of shortcut conflicts. For example, Alacritty doesn’t seems to register Meta as alt in emacs. I did figure out the Alacritty config to handle this, but then I had issues with some of my tmux navigation commands conflicting.

knowler commented 4 years ago

So, compared to vim:

Emacs starts in a mode where you can type in and edit a page (tough to get used to).

knowler commented 4 years ago

Quit: C-x C-c

I could be wrong, but the window related shortcuts seem to use the prefix: C-x.

knowler commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/knowler/dotfiles/pull/8#issuecomment-735556471

If for whatever reason, alt cannot be used as the modifier, then Emacs will use Escape.

knowler commented 4 years ago

A goal I have in learning here is to not waste a ton of time on rebinding the keys.

knowler commented 4 years ago

By default, the prefix keys in Emacs are ‘C-c’, ‘C-h’, ‘C-x’, ‘C-x
’, ‘C-x @’, ‘C-x a’, ‘C-x n’, ‘C-x r’, ‘C-x t’, ‘C-x v’, ‘C-x 4’, ‘C-x 5’, ‘C-x 6’, , ‘M-g’, and ‘M-o’. Typing the help character (‘C-h’ or ) after a prefix key displays a list of the commands starting with that prefix

M-x - execute-extended-command
C-g - keyboard-quit (like quit the half-baked action)
C-/ - undo
C-x C-c - save-buffers-kill-terminal (quits emacs)
C-x C-s - save-buffer
C-y - yank (yank the last kill into buffer, at point)
C-x 1 - Close all other windows
C-x 2 - Vertical split
C-x 3 - Horizontal split

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