Xah's Emacs Tutorial

Xah Lee, 2005, ..., 2009

This emacs tutorial is designed for programers and scientists who wish to learn emacs to get things done quickly, without spending a lot time on learning Emacs's special terminologies and methods.

If you are a programer by profession, knowing emacs benefits you for life.

Emacs Tutorial

General Tips

• Emacs Basics
• Emacs Intermediate
• Emacs FAQ on Setting Screen Display
• Emacs Advanced Tips
• Emacs Less-known Tips
• Fun Things To Do With Emacs
• How To Make Emacs Use Modern User Interface
• Emacs and MS Windows Tips

General Tasks

• Emacs and Unicode Tips ★Жשقऒஆขα杀
• Emacs and HTML Tips
• Emacs and Unix Tips #!shebang
• File Management with Emacs

Specific Tasks

• Find and Replace with Emacs FIND → REPLACE
• Interactively Find and Replace String Patterns on Multiple Files
• Rename Files by a Text Pattern

Emacs Keyboarding

Emacs Lisp Tutorial

• Emacs's Keyboard Shortcut Layout
• Defining Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts
• A Ergonomic Keyboard Shortcut Layout
• Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts Are Painful
• How To Avoid The Emacs Pinky Problem

General Emacs Tips

• Emacs Regex
• How To Install Emacs Packages
• Long Term Emacs Productivity Tips

Modernization of Emacs

Emacs Additions

• Dictionary and Reference Lookup with Emacs
• How To Define Templates In YASnippet
• How To Add Menu in Emacs

Emacs Related Essays

About the author, Acknowledgement

Download

Download this tutorial: http://xahlee.org/diklo/xah_emacs_tutorial.zip.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

The tutorial is updated frequently with new addition, especially the elisp tutorial section. You may want to download every few months.

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