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 |