Thursday, 29 December 2016

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs 4

How to copy and paste a whole file in emacs?


Suppose you are in the middle of a file.

(1) navigate to the first character of the file :  Use  Meta + <  (i.e., Meta key + shift +  ,  )
(2) Enter "Ctrl + Space " to activate the select mode
(3) navigate to the last character of the file :  Use  Meta + >  (i.e., Meta key + shift +  .  )
 (4) Enter "Meta +  w" to copy
 (5) Enter "Ctrl + y" to paste.

Note what is Meta key ?
 On Mac is Mac key, On other keyboard is the Alt key, some old keyboard may use ESC key

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