If you don’t feel like going through this tutorial step by step and just want the code, you can find it at my emacs-light repo. If/when you get stuck in some command and you don’t know how to get out of it, spam C-g ( This is probably the most important command in all of emacs).To copy or kill a highlighted area: C-w and pasting or yanking: C-y. Copying and pasting: in emacs this is called killing and yanking, respectively, for legacy reasons that aren’t important here.Window: the area of screen that displays a buffer.Buffer: used to hold the contents of files that are being visited.Frame: what you normally call a “window” for GUI applications, basically it’s one running instance of an emacs client.Emacs commands are executed with C-*, M-* or C-M-*, “C” is the control key, and “M” is the meta key which is not really a key on modern keyboards anymore, but maps to the “option” key on a Mac (later we’ll switch this to the “Cmd or Command” key on Mac because I find that easier, but if you don’t mind using the option key then skip that step!).Emacs terminology and basics for this tutorial (don’t skip this!) With all that in mind let’s get our first taste of emacs.
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