mjamesruggiero / .emacs.d

My personal emacs settings - forked from jamesthompson/.emacs.d

Emacs settings

Settings forked from magnars/.emacs.d

Setup

Ensure to toast your .emacs file if you have one. Also delete anything inside your .emacs.d.

To grab all the dependencies:

git clone --recursive git://github.com:mjamesruggiero/.emacs.d.git

The first time you start emacs, it will install some additional packages that are best handled by the package manager.

Install emacs on mac

brew install emacs

I removed the stock emacs version from Mac OS X 10.9 in /usr/bin

I manually installed Emacs cocoa binary into /Applications.

Idiosyncrasies

• Meta key is bound to command on a Mac.

• Key bindings are listed in settings/key-bindings.el

• You quit emacs with C-x r q, mnemonic Really Quit.

• Find file in project with C-x o, in dir with C-x C-f, recent with C-x f

• Help is bound to F1. C-h is rebound to backspace, like in the shell.

• Autocomplete with C-. (autocomplete entire lines with C-:)

• Expand-region is bound to C-'

• Undo with C-_ or C-/ and redo with M-_. Watch the undo-tree with C-x u

• Quickly jump anywhere in the buffer with M-g then the starting letter of a word. Press the letter highlighted to go there.

• Indent and clean up white space in the entire buffer with C-c n

Help

• C Shorthand for the ctrl-key
• M Shorthand for the meta-key (bound to cmd on my mac settings)
• S Shorthand for the shift-key

Files

• C-x C-f Open a file. Starts in the current directory
• C-x f Open a recently visited file
• C-x o Open a file in the current project (based on .git ++)
• C-x C-s Save this file
• C-x C-w Save as ...
• C-x C-j Jump to this files' current directory
• C-x b Switch to another open file (buffer)
• C-x C-b List all open files (buffers)

Cut copy and paste

• C-space Start marking stuff. C-g to cancel. Navigate however you desire to expand the region, you don't have to press anything to close it.
• C-w Cut (aka kill)
• C-k Cut till end of line
• M-w Copy
• C-y Paste (aka yank)
• M-y Cycle last paste through previous kills
• C-x C-y Choose what to paste from previous kills

General

• C-g Quit out of whatever mess you've gotten yourself into
• M-x Run a command by name
• C-. Autocomplete
• C-_ Undo
• M-_ Redo
• C-x u Show the undo-tree
• C-x m Open magit. It's a magical git interface for emacs

Navigation

• C-arrow Move past words/paragraphs
• C-a Go to start of line
• C-e Go to end of line
• M-g M-g Go to line number
• C-x C-i Go to symbol
• C-s Search forward. Press C-s again to go further.
• C-r Search backward. Press C-r again to go further.

Window management

• C-x 0 Close this window
• C-x 1 Close other windows
• C-x 2 Split window horizontally
• C-x 3 Split window vertically
• S-arrow Jump to window to the left/right/up/down

Help

• F1 t Basic tutorial
• F1 k Help for a keybinding
• F1 r Emacs' extensive documentation

Magit (Git wrapper)

• C-x m. s to stage, c to commit. C-c C-c to finish commit msg buffer.