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Re: mouse-less emacs
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: mouse-less emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:53:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
sahteaccount@gmail.com writes:
> I am a fairly new linux and emacs user. When I was using a text editor
> under windows, I rarely used the mouse. I used ctrl+shift+arrow keys
> to select text and ctrl+c and ctrl+v to do copy paste stuff.
>
> So far in linux (and emacs) whenever I need to copy/paste something, I
> highlight the text with mouse and then middle-click the mouse to paste
> it. What would be the shortcuts to do same things in emacs with
> keyboard? Especially equivalent of ctrl+shift+arrow key in emacs?
C-SPC (twice if you want to specially mark the region for a number of
region-restricted commands), move to the other side of the region. For
copy, type M-w, for kill C-w. At insertion point, type C-y.
It is not like Emacs does not have a handy reference card coming with
it.
> Finally... Undo is simply ctrl+z in windows, while linux uses that
> combination to suspend the process. Emacs's ctrl+_ is difficult
> because
> 1) those key are not close to each other
> 2) I don't have an explicit _ key. It is 'shift' of +. So I need to
> ctrl+shift+ + which is obviously harder.
C-/ is also undo.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum