Emacs is a very powerful text editor used by geeks the world over. Now I am not trying to fuel a Emacs vs Vi war but mastering Emacs editor will definitely make you more productive and save time, compared to doing the same tasks using a more common text editor. What is more, Emacs is available cross platform which means, no matter which operating system you use, a native version of Emacs is available for your OS.
However, mastering the use of Emacs involves a learning curve. At the least, you need to be aware of a few terminologies used, and must be prepared to change your mind set as far as text editing is concerned.
Ben Simon has put together a nice compilation of the 11 things a potential Emacs user should be aware of before he starts using the editor.
So without further ado, the following are the 11 Emacs Concepts that a newbie should master.
As an aside, did you know that Emacs has built-in games ? Well, I have played Tetris in Emacs. You can accomplish so much using Emacs that some die-hard fans of Emacs call it an operating system.However, mastering the use of Emacs involves a learning curve. At the least, you need to be aware of a few terminologies used, and must be prepared to change your mind set as far as text editing is concerned.
Ben Simon has put together a nice compilation of the 11 things a potential Emacs user should be aware of before he starts using the editor.
So without further ado, the following are the 11 Emacs Concepts that a newbie should master.
- Killing and Yanking
- Buffer switching
- Dynamic Abbreviations
- Parenthesis Modes
- Spell Checking
- Undo
- Narrowing
- Incremental Search
- Keyboard Macros
- Dired Mode, and
- Version Control
