![]() Note: You can customize Emacs to be case-sensitive, but it is not set up that way by default. Search for a word (repeat the same key combination to find the next occurrence, or use Ctrl+R to find the previous one.) The basic navigation commands below include the shortcuts listed in the previous section (many of these are out-of-the-box shortcuts in macOS, too): Key combo This setup makes navigating any text field faster in tools such as browsers and Google Docs. Note: Whether you use capital or lowercase letters does not matter in this case. As an Apple addict, many of the Emacs keyboard shortcuts come out-of-the-box with macOS, such as: Key comboĭelete the rest of the current line starting from the cursor. In my experience, Emacs resembles editors like Microsoft Word and Google Docs more than Vim because of its modelessness, and this fact may make it easier to get used to than Vim.Īs noted in the Wikipedia editor war article, the "non-modal nature of Emacs keybindings makes it practical to OS-wide keybindings." This sentiment summaries the biggest reason that I choose Emacs over Vim. Because Emacs is modeless, its keyboard commands often start with the Ctrl key or the Meta key (which can be Esc or Opt if configured in your macOS terminal preferences), so that the system can distinguish actual edits from commands. One of the most notable differences between is two editors is that, unlike Emacs, Vim has two modes: Insert mode (where you can edit the file and cannot enter commands) and Command mode (where you can only enter commands and the file is read-only). There’s a dedicated Wikipedia page with a summary of the differences and pros vs. cons to help you decide what side of the editor war between Vim and Emacs you’re on. If you are new to text editing, you may wonder if you should go with Emacs or Vim, since remembering all of the commands for either can involve a significant investment of muscle memory. If you want to know why you should learn Emacs and how to get started, please keep reading. As a (less popular) cousin of Vim, Emacs also offers powerful capabilities with easy-to-install language support, and can even help you navigate faster in macOS with the same keybindings. And frankly this is but a taste for the potential.Emacs is a text editing tool that comes out-of-the-box with Linux and macOS. I do not do this myself, but some fast searches or quick lookup work great in Emacs. I am not saying that you should move all of your browsing into Emacs. The ability of displaying most websites or html content entails quite a bit of power. ![]() Now I could have stopped with the first example. Preview markdown and org-mode with a packageĪnother useful preview tool which works using Xwidgets is grip-mode, which I use extensively. I use Hugo for the static site, in case you are asking. The following image is actually showing the live preview while I am typing it – inside of Emacs. mu4e-action-view-with-xwidget ) t ) Editing content with preview mu4e-action-view-with-xwidget ) t ) (add-to-list 'mu4e-view-actions ' ( "xWidget". (add-to-list 'mu4e-headers-actions ' ( "xWidget". with that I can toggle the display of my email in an Xwidget. I added the mu4e-view-xwidget.el file into my load-path and put the following snippet into my configuration. ![]() However there is a PR with a library that can be used to regain that “power”. Plus, the code for the functionality of Xwidget view action in mu4e is being – or rather has been deprecated. This is not a default behavior as far as I can see. However there are some cases, where one wants to see the email as it was intended to be displayed. And honestly I prefer the plain text display of emails anyways. HTML email displayīy default mu4e does a fantastic job of displaying HTML emails. The only thing that does not work here as far as I can see is full screen. The following image shows a YouTube video running inside Emacs. Let me try and give you some example to illustrate in which cases WebKit Widgets are useful to me. And though the magic of it all we are allowed to stay a bit longer in our favorite tool. ![]() Meaning that WebKit based content can be embedded in Emacs. This allows appropriate packages to implement WebKit Widgets. This however means a possibly unwanted context switch and worse of all leaving Emacs. Be it for either displaying dynamic content, (moving) images, well designed websites and the sort.įor that reason we sometimes need to go to a browser. Sometimes a fully fledged browser experience or display of content is called for and – dare I say – superior.
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