From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Issues with emacs Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:24:14 +0200 Message-ID: <4FE714FE.2060308@dogan.se> References: <87bokbb4zw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340544284 6782 80.91.229.3 (24 Jun 2012 13:24:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: notbob Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 24 15:24:43 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Simnw-0006ZD-40 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:24:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Simnv-0003QK-Qm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:24:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49393) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Simnq-0003QB-P6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Simno-0004bH-Rb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mxf4.bahnhof.se ([213.80.101.28]:50110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Simno-0004b8-Kq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (mxf4.local [127.0.0.1]) by mxf4-reinject (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8B45F9890; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:24:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at bahnhof.se (MXF2) Original-Received: from mxf4.bahnhof.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mxf4.bahnhof.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JpxVnw3YKNl4; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:24:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.4] (h-149-227.a336.priv.bahnhof.se [37.123.149.227]) by mxf4.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 751915F989B; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:24:27 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.80.101.28 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85415 Archived-At: On 2012-06-24 14:17,, notbob wrote: > On 2012-06-24, Andreas R=F6hler wrote: > >> also focus should shift from teaching keys to mnemonic command-names. > > I don't know about that. I jes wrote my own cheat sheet as I learned > new commands and keystokes. I mean, yer already in a text editor, > ferchrysakes! ;) > Wouldn't it be very useful to have a QUICKSTART or HOWTO shipped with=20 Emacs? Something really short and concise and containing something like=20 this: Notation: * C- means Control * M- means Meta (or Alt if you don't have a Meta key) * C-M- means Control and Meta Movement: C-n - Move to the next line C-p - Move to the previous line C-v - Move one screen downwards M-v - Move one screen upwards Editing: C-x C-f - Open a file C-x b - Switch to another buffer C-x C-s - Save the current buffer to a file C-w - Cut the current selection ("killing" and deleting) M-w - Copy the current selection ("killing" but not deleting) C-y - Paste ("yanking" killed text) C-/ - Undo Searching/replacing: C-s - Search M-% - Search and replace C-M-% - Search and replace (regular expressions) Miscellaneous: M-x - Execute a command that doesn't necessarily have a key binding C-x C-c - Exit Emacs C-g - Abort unfinished key sequence ESC ESC ESC - If you messed up somehow and want to hide in a corner and=20 hope for it to go away