Mastering Emacs

Contents
Introduction
	Thank You
	2022 Edition Update
		Emacs in the Future
	2020 Edition Update
	Intended Audience
	What You'll Learn
The Way of Emacs
	Guiding Philosophy
		LISP?
		Extensibility
	Important Conventions
		The Buffer
		The Window and the Frame
		The Point and Mark
		Killing, Yanking and CUA
		.emacs.d, init.el, and .emacs
		Major Modes and Minor Modes
First Steps
	Installing and Starting Emacs
		Starting Emacs
	The Emacs Interface
	Keys
		Caps Lock as Control
		M-x: Execute Extended Command
		M-S-x: Execute Extended Command for Buffer
		Universal Arguments
		Discovering and Remembering Keys
	Configuring Emacs
		The Customize Interface
		Evaluating Elisp Code
		The Package Manager
		Color Themes
	Getting Help
		The Info Manual
		Apropos
		The Describe System
The Theory of Movement
	The Basics
		C-x C-f: Find file
		C-x C-s: Save Buffer
		C-x C-c: Exits Emacs
		C-x b: Switch Buffer
		C-x k: Kill Buffer
		ESC ESC ESC: Keyboard Escape
		C-/: Undo
	Window Management
		Working with Other Windows
	Frame Management
	Tab Bars and Tab Lines
		Tab Bar Mode
		Tab Line Mode
	Elemental Movement
		Navigation Keys
		Moving by Character
		Moving by Line
		Moving by Word
		Moving by S-Expressions
		Other Movement Commands
		Scrolling
	Bookmarks and Registers
	Selections and Regions
		Selection Compatibility Modes
		Setting the Mark
	Searching and Indexing
		Isearch: Incremental Search
		Occur: Print and Edit lines matching an expression
		Imenu: Jump to definitions
		Helm: Incremental Completion and Selection
		IDO: Interactively DO Things
		Grep: Searching the file system
	Other Movement Commands
	Conclusion
The Theory of Editing
	Killing and Yanking Text
		Killing versus Deleting
		Yanking Text
	Transposing Text
		C-t: Transpose Characters
		M-t: Transpose Words
		C-M-t: Transpose S-expressions
		Other Transpose Commands
	Filling and Commenting
		Filling
		Commenting
	Search and Replace
		Case Folding
		Regular Expressions
	Changing Case
	Counting Things
	Text Manipulation
		Editable Occur
		Deleting Duplicates
		Flushing and Keeping Lines
		Copying and Killing Matching Lines
		Joining and Splitting Lines
		Whitespace Commands
	Keyboard Macros
		Basic Commands
		Advanced Commands
	Text Expansion
		Abbrev
		DAbbrev and Hippie Expand
	Indenting Text and Code
		TAB: Indenting the Current Line
		Indenting Regions
	Sorting and Aligning
		Sorting
		Aligning
	Other Editing Commands
		Zapping Characters
		Spell Checking
		Quoted Insert
The Practicals of Emacs
	Exploring Emacs
		Reading the Manual
		Using Apropos
		C-h: Exploring Prefix keys
		C-h k: Describe what a key does
		C-h m: Finding mode commands
		M-S-x: Execute Extended Command for Buffer
	Project Management
	Xref: Cross-References in Emacs
	Working with Log Files
		Browsing Other Files
	TRAMP: Remote File Editing
		The Default Directory and Remote Editing
		Multi-Hops and User Switching
	EWW: Emacs Web Wowser
	Dired: Files and Directories
		Navigation
		Marking and Unmarking
		Operations
		Working Across Directories
	Shell Commands
		Compiling in Emacs
	Shells in Emacs
		M-x shell: Shell Mode
		M-x ansi-term: Terminal Emulator
		M-x eshell: Emacs's Shell
Conclusion
	Other Resources
		Third-Party Packages and Tools
		Communities