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''[Emacs] is a nice operating system — it just lacks a good editor.''
+ ''[Emacs] is my operating system - Linux is just my drivers.''
A programmers' text editor and [IDE]. See emacs(1).
-Its icon is a kitchen sink, and there's very good reason for that. Its core is an [Elisp] interpreter which can be used to implement extensions, of which literally hundreds have been written — including a complete WebBrowser, MailClient, NewsReader, and almost anything else you could (n)ever need.
+Its icon is a kitchen sink, and there's very good reason for that. Its core is an [Elisp] interpreter which can be used to implement extensions, of which literally hundreds have been written — including a complete WebBrowser, MailClient, NewsReader, and almost anything else you could (n)ever need (M-x phases-of-the-moon). To the extent that many emacs users, use emacs for just about everything in the daily computing life.
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+Emacs comes with a large number of key combinations by default (all rebindable) (there is many more available from emacs lisp on the internet). These genrelly have either a Ctrl (C-?) or Meta (M-?) (normally alt) prefix. Some basic combos are
+C-x C-s -- Save
+C-x C-f -- open file
+C-x k -- kill buffer (visable content, not neccaserily a file)
+C-x b -- Switch buffer
+C-x C-b -- List open buffers
+C-s -- Search forwardgg
+C-r -- Search backward (reverse search)
+C-k -- Kill line (cut)
+C-y -- Yank (paste)
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+plus countless more
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''A young man studying in the temple went seeking the priest. He asked the priest “Master, does Emacs possess the Buddha nature?” The priest had resided in the temple for a good many year, and was very wise. He thought for a while, and then answered: “I don’t see why not, it’s got bloody well everything else.” The young man then achieved enlightenment shortly after.''
[Unix] programmers tend to settle on either [Emacs] or [vi|Vim] as their main programming environment, then pick on each other for their choices.
For a decent introduction to using [Emacs], look at our slides on the UnixTutorials page.
If you are having trouble with copy&paste in [Emacs] (or XEmacs) under [X11], [check this quick tip | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6162].
