Tutorial 18 - Emacs

19 Nov 2014

Overview

What is emacs? Well when it comes to computing, emacs can be just about anything. To many it is a text editor. To others it is virtually an operating system. Indeed there are many uses who spend the great majority of their computing time within emacs.

Personally, with the exception of web browsing (which I perform largely within Conkeror - the firefox derivative that uses emacs key-bindings), the majority of my workflow is carried out within emacs. Emacs edits my markdown files, R scripts and notes, runs R (via ess), pandoc (to covert document formats), xelatex (for document preparation) and make (to bind all actions together).

Bookmarks

Bookmarks allow you to quickly jump to files, directories etc

Action	Command
Set a bookmark	C-x p m (OR C-x r m)
Jump to a bookmark	C-x p b (OR C-x p b)
Set a bookmark	C-x r l