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(If you did this already to enable mouse clicks in nano, you don't need to do it again for emacs.) Option-clicking tells Terminal to send a series of cursor-movement keystrokes to emacs, thereby moving the cursor to the point where you clicked.Ĭontrol-a to move to the start of the lineĮscape a to move to the start of the sentenceĮscape e to move to the end of the sentenceĮscape to move to the end of the documentĬontrol-l (letter ell) to center the document on the current cursor position Launch the Terminal Inspector by choosing Terminal > Window Settings select Emulation from the pop-up menu, and check Option-Click to Position Cursor. To position the cursor by clicking, you must first enable Terminal's Option-Click to Position Cursor feature. Use the cursor (arrow) keys in the normal manner to select an editing position in a file. (Don't hold the Escape key down, as you would the Control key.) Move Around Meta-key sequences are shown as, for example, M-a, which means press Escape and then the letter a. Control sequences are shown in the emacs documentation as, for example, C-a, which means press Control-a. The emacs text editor provides more tools and greater sophistication than the simpler nano editor.Ĭommands in emacs are introduced with either the Control key or the Escape key (termed the meta key). The line above that, with white text on a black background, is the mode line it shows status and important and informational messages such as the name of the file you are editing.įigure 4.2. The bottom line is the minibuffer, in which you type command arguments such as the name of a file to load. You'll see a terminal window similar to that shown in Figure 4.2. $ cd ~/Sites $ cp index.html index-new.html $ emacs index-new.html We'll work on a copy of it, which we'll call index-new.html, but you can use any other text file instead.
You should find a file called index.html in the directory Sites in your home directory. Basicsįire up emacs, and we'll take a look at what it can do. Projects 32 through 35 cover the vim text editor, and Project 30 covers the simpler nano text editor. This project introduces the emacs text editor, a full-featured text editor that'll do all you want and more, with an extensive interactive help system and tutorials to help you get started. "What do I do once I've outgrown the nano text editor?"
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