#Emacs commands manual

To solve this, you either need to hit return in long lines or set emacs up to do word wrap. Important: the spell checker in emacs does not like really really long lines of text - it will in fact skip over them.

q Quit interactive spell-checking and kill the spell-checker subprocess. x Quit interactive spell-checking and move point back to where it was when you started spell-checking. i Insert this word in your private dictionary file so that it will be considered correct from now on, even in future sessions. A Accept the incorrect word-treat it as correct, but only in this editing session and for this buffer. (The replacement string will be rescanned for more spelling errors.) a Accept the incorrect word-treat it as correct, but only in this editing session. r new Replace the word, just this time, with new. Skip this word-continue to consider it incorrect, but don't change it here.

Each near-miss is listed with a digit type that digit to select it. The following is an abbreviated version of the instructions from Spelling at the GNU web site items between the lines below are quoted directly from that site.ĭigit Replace the word, just this time, with one of the displayed near-misses. Once you start spell checking, you have some options for what to do with words that are spelled incorrectly.

You can use the Spell-Check Buffer command in the Spell Checking part of the Tools menu in emacs. ‘C-h v’ ( ‘describe-variable’) Describe an Emacs user option or internal variable.Where FILENAME is either the name of an existing file or the name of a new file you want to create. ‘C-h l’ ( ‘view-lossage’) Show your last 100 keystrokes. ‘C-h C-n’ ( ‘view-emacs-news’) Describe what’s new in the current version of Emacs, compared to the previous version. ‘M-x search-emacs-glossary’ Open the Glossary page of the Emacs manual. ‘C-h p’ ( ‘finder-by-keyword’, FinderByKeyword) List available EmacsLisp packages. (Emacs 22 or later only) ‘C-h i’ ( ‘info’) Open Info, the documentation browser: Access to a menu of available manuals. ‘C-h r’ ( ‘info-emacs-manual’) Access the EmacsManual. ‘C-h b’ ( ‘describe-bindings’) List all of the key bindings currently in effect for the current buffer. ‘C-h m’ ( ‘describe-mode’) Describe the modes of the current buffer, including the main keys and commands available. Emacs 22 ( ‘apropos-documentation’): Show documentation for Lisp symbols whose documentation matches a word or regexp.Emacs 20, 21 ( ‘describe-function’): Same as ‘C-h f’.Example: ‘C-h a file’ lists the commands with “ file” in their name. ‘C-h a’ ( ‘apropos-command’) List Emacs commands whose names match a given pattern.

#Emacs commands manual

Emacs 22 ( ‘Info-goto-emacs-command-node’): Go to the Emacs manual section that describes an Emacs command.

Emacs 20, 21 ( ‘view-emacs-FAQ’): Show the Emacs FAQ (frequently asked questions).

‘C-h f’ ( ‘describe-function’) Describe an Emacs command (non-interactive function). ‘C-h w’ ( ‘where-is’) List the (keyboard/menu/mouse) keys that invoke an Emacs command. ‘C-h K’ ( ‘Info-goto-emacs-key-command-node’) Go to the Emacs manual section that describes a key sequence that you type. Useful help keys and commands include these (this info is available via ‘C-h C-h’): ‘C-h t’ ( ‘help-with-tutorial’) Present the learn-by-doing EmacsTutorial ‘C-h k’ ( ‘describe-key’) Describe the Emacs command that a keyboard/menu/mouse sequence invokes: You enter a key sequence, and Emacs tells you what it does. The command names associated with the individual help keys can sometimes help you remember the keys themselves. The EmacsManual is available through ‘Help’ → ‘Info’ → ‘Emacs’. Try ‘C-h C-h’ ( ‘help-for-help’) to access Emacs help. Here are some pointers for getting help for EmacsNewbies: