BOOORINNNGGG;"No matter what you do, you can start Emacs in the morning, work all day and all night, and never leave it" really friendly author! emacs edits on buffers and then saves them to files pause @ 10:01 TO DOWNLOAD THE GUI EMACS back @ 10:09 and editing this file in EMACS cursor is also refered to as point open file: c-x c-f refill mode keeps paragraphs neat. meta-b and meta-f move forward and back a word ctrl-d and meta-d delete words ctrl-y undeltes ctrl-_ undo ctrl-t transposes (reverses order letters of.) u changes CAPITALIZATION m-x recover-file then enter -recovers last saved file m-< and > to go forward and back m% to do query search and replace proairplane m-TaB - complete word! HEL dynamic expansion! dynamic expansion....m-/ c-x-b new buffer. cx-k kill buffer cx2 split window vertically cxo moves between windows pause @ 11:00pm back @ 11:05pm cx0 kills window cx -cb list of buffers cx rm sets a bookmark and cx rb moves to one m-! runs system command m-| does shelll command on reigon cx-d dired m-x calender displays calendar id adds diary entry! macros are lazy lisp programs to start a macro: c-x ( good macros can be used with anything. m-s centers text. rectangle editing defines tabbed rectangles to navigate easier yessss drawing!!!!!!! im always going to write notes in emacs from now on so i can draw dssssssssssss s@@@@@@@@@@s s s s@@@@@ss s@@@s s@s yesssss! to draw m-x edit picture . .- .. to draw with mouse, m-x artist-mode. %-.#-m..s-+m.d. .- ..-m--mm+.# ..+ + ............. +#m%%# #%.+.-+..++%++ . ....+.+-mm#*##-.-+%#*#.. .. .-m.mm%+%-.m--.-% - . .--*m%#%#%#%%+%+%-+. -. - +%**###*###*#%m..- . -.. .m-m%*####*######--+- . - . .. .. . .*#%################+ . .-%% . . . ... .---.%######*####m#m-m-%-.. ..####-.. .-+-#.------##-#m#+%########m-#+#+m%... ....#%*-.. ++%#-+m++%*#####################*.+.. - ... -*-+. ##m##m#########################+ ..m.#++. . .-######*########################%. ++m%m+ -+- %*#############################m.- -m+-%.%. . .--%######*######################+-. -+-%*.- %+ . -*###%%+##-#**#######%#######.m .. +m+*+.%. - +++ .-m.m-%--m *++-%%######m#####%-.-#-.-m+m--.. . - . . -- . .m. .+ -+++#######m-+ . %+#... .. - ...++m%**#++.m m-+ + --.+m+-m%... +.. - . ..-m. .. .+ m- enters comments in markup mode m-x html-mode also modes for xml and latex note: read up on latex emacs obviously is good for programming:Ada, assembly, awk, C, C++, Common Lisp, Fortran, ICON, Java, Lisp, MIM, Modula-2, Objective-C, Pascal, Pike, Perl, PROLOG, Python, Scheme, SGML, Simula, and SQL many different options for writing programs, auto-ident and formatting, etc. emacs is infinitely customizable you can control emacs through the .emacs file yessssss.... white text on black background. i think emacs was written in lisp, since the .emacs file is in lisp basic lisp writing emacs lisp helps you customize emacs to do exactly what you want it to do. lisp is the language for ai in lisp, variables do not have types lisp uses regular expressions, just like sed and awk emacs has version control CVS - concurrent version system ediff views differences between versions best thing - emacs provides extensive 'help' documentation. if you don't know what keys you pressed, you can type C-h l (for view-lossage).