turn off color
Do not use colors even if the terminal is capable (still allows the buffer mode to do syntax highlighting with bold text, etc):
emacs --color=no
Disable (all) major-mode syntax highlighting:
(global-font-lock-mode -1)
People suggest using the following in a loop over all font faces:
(set-face-attribute face nil :foreground nil :background nil)
M-x customize-face can be used over a particular keyword in a buffer to
change syntax highlighting properties
M-x customize-themes to choose a color theme (includes dark themes). Consider fxn/monochrome-theme.el
eval a lisp expression in the current buffer and print the value in the minibuffer
M-:
for example M-: major-mode
to show the current major mode
force a mode on a file, put at end of text
// Local Variables:
// mode: c++
// End:
goto an offset in the file
M-x goto-char
Short cut:
M-g c
register commands
point-to-register: C-x r SPC
register-to-point: C-x j <register id>
copy-to-register: C-x r x
insert-register: C-x r g
view-register: -
; this is for shells that set either delete or backspace
; as ctrl h use M-x help to get to help instead
(global-set-key "\C-h" 'backward-delete-char)
; set the tab width slightly smaller
(setq default-tab-width 4)
;; do not display a splash screen on startup for emacs 22
(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
;; turn off menu bar in terminal
(if (not window-system)
(menu-bar-mode -1))
;; don't use tabs to indent, may or may not want this
;; to insert a tab C-q
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
- to make the elisp debugger window go away hit 'q' in the buffer
tramp: allows you to
edit files remotely through ssh as well as other methods. you can
just open a file using the normal scp path syntax.
emacs keybindings
under gnome 3
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"
under xfce
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/KeyThemeName -s Emacs
may need to add
--create --type string
to above
