Re: Issues with emacs

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2012-06-24 14:17,, notbob wrote:
> On 2012-06-24, Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:
>
> > also focus should shift from teaching keys to mnemonic command-names.
>
> I don't know about that.  I jes wrote my own cheat sheet as I learned
> new commands and keystokes.  I mean, yer already in a text editor,
> ferchrysakes!   ;)

Wouldn't it be very useful to have a QUICKSTART or HOWTO shipped with 
Emacs?  Something really short and concise and containing something like 
this:

Notation:

* C- means Control
* M- means Meta (or Alt if you don't have a Meta key)
* C-M- means Control and Meta


Movement:

C-n - Move to the next line
C-p - Move to the previous line
C-v - Move one screen downwards
M-v - Move one screen upwards


Editing:

C-x C-f - Open a file
C-x b - Switch to another buffer
C-x C-s - Save the current buffer to a file
C-w - Cut the current selection ("killing" and deleting)
M-w - Copy the current selection ("killing" but not deleting)
C-y - Paste ("yanking" killed text)
C-/ - Undo


Searching/replacing:

C-s - Search
M-% - Search and replace
C-M-% - Search and replace (regular expressions)


Miscellaneous:

M-x - Execute a command that doesn't necessarily have a key binding
C-x C-c - Exit Emacs
C-g - Abort unfinished key sequence
ESC ESC ESC - If you messed up somehow and want to hide in a corner and 
hope for it to go away