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SEARCH AND REPLACE AQUAMACS INSTALL
SEARCH AND REPLACE AQUAMACS WINDOWS

The most important command you need to know is C-g.

If you find your cursor there accidentally C-g will get you out of it with no harm done. The minibuffer is Emacs's name for the little window that appears at the bottom of a frame when you type a command and where, for instance, you type text that you want to find or replace. For, say, M-u you type Esc first and then the u key, not the two simultaneously. The Meta key is the Esc key (usually top left on the keyboard). Many keyboard shortcuts involve sequences of commands, so that for instance C-c C-c means that you type Control-and-c twice. When you see a command such as C-g, this means that you should hold down the Control key and then press the g key simultaneously. On PCs the Control key is marked Ctrl and is normally found in the bottom left corner of the keyboard. You'll see them written as, for instance, C-g or M-x. The Control and Meta keysĪlmost all Emacs keyboard shortcuts are combinations with the Control or Meta keys.

But almost everything you will need can be found through the menus or is described on this page. Next to most menu items you will see the equivalent keyboard shortcut, and there are many hundreds more. But for more efficient working it is useful to learn as many keyboard shortcuts as possible.

Menus and toolbars are comforting and intuitive, especially when you are first learning to use a new piece of software. There is also a toolbar at the top of each Emacs frame, with clickable icons for basic editing and file commands. Even on the File, Edit, Options, and Buffers menus there are many items that you will never need, so do not worry if they seem mostly incomprehensible to you for now. You are unlikely to need anything in Tools, and the Help menu lists far too many different sorts of help to be useful for a beginner. You may also be unfamiliar with the Emacs terms "directory" (folder) and "search" (find).Īpart from the ATF menu, the File, Edit, Options, and Buffers menus will be most useful to you. A frame may have more than one tab, each containing a different buffer, in the same way that a web browser can have several web pages open at once in different tabs. A "buffer" is essentially a view of a document, which is displayed in one or more "frames" (windows).

SEARCH AND REPLACE AQUAMACS WINDOWS

Much is where you would expect it, though Emacs terminology can seem rather strange to Windows users.

SEARCH AND REPLACE AQUAMACS INSTALL

When you first install Emacs, it is worth looking through the menus to locate the basic commands. If you would prefer a larger or smaller font, simply increase or decrease the -17. In the file, you'll find three lines with: "-outline-Dejavu Sans Mono-normal-r-normal-normal-17-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1"

emacs-file from within Emacs by typing ctrl-x ctrl-f and entering the filename as ~/.emacs. If you want to change the font size, locate the. emacs-file available from the Emacs page sets the default font and the ATF font to DejaVu Mono. emacs-file allows you to customize the behaviour of Emacs. Two different ways of typing transliteration characters are described on other pages. To ensure you have all the necessary transliteration and normalisation characters, we recommend that you install the DejaVu font. At the end of the file, you'll find a possible solution to this problem. emacs file which you installed from the Emacs setup page, by typing ctrl-x ctrl-f and entering the filename as ~/.emacs. If you get the error message directory ~/.emacs.d/server is unsafe open the. This page aims to make working with Emacs as intuitive and Windows-like as possible. And it doesn't help that Emacs has its own little quirks. Here we give a short description of some features that we have found useful for editing and lemmatising ATF in EmacsW32 (Emacs for Windows), apart from those provided by ATF Mode.Įmacs is a very powerful piece of software, but its documentation is dense, difficult to navigate, and usually assumes that you are working in Unix without a mouse.