# Emacs

Emacs is a text editor popular with software developers or anyone who needs to take notes at high speed or be able to customise their editing environment to a high degree. When installed on Freedombone it can be used together the Mutt email client to edit new emails or if you need to manually edit configuration files.

## Installation

Log into your system with:

    ssh myusername@mydomain -p 2222

Using cursor keys, space bar and Enter key select Administrator controls and type in your password.

Select Add/Remove Apps. If Vim is selected then you might want to unselect and uninstall it first, then select emacs.

## Common key combinations

For anyone new to Emacs some common keys are:

CTRL-x CTRL-s | Save
CTRL-x CTRL-c | Exit
CTRL-l | Go to a line number
CTRL-x CTRL-f | Open a file
SHIFT-ALT-< | Go to the top of the file
SHIFT-ALT-> | Go to the end of the file
SHIFT cursors | Select text
CTRL-x CTRL-h | Highlight all text
ALT-w | Copy selected text
CTRL-y | Paste selected text
ESC-ESC-ESC | Undo current selection

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