Shells like KornShell, Bash, Zsh, and Fish offer command-line editing; Emacs-style editing is recommended. Have ...

It is no secret that I have a few things permanently burned into my neurons: the 1802 instruction set, the commands for WordStar, and the commands for emacs. There was a time when emacs was almost ...

When I run Emacs in X, I have white text on a black background, which is the opposite of the default.~/.Xdefaults has Emacs.default.attributeBackground: blackEmacs.default.attributeForeground ...

Emacs, on the other hand, offers a far more conventional and accessible editing environment, with commands based on reasonably intuitive combinations: Ctrl-S lets you search, Ctrl-X Ctrl-S saves ...

When I use Linux, I practically live in the terminal. As with any living space, I like to add my own touch when I move into a new place. Here are the apps I install on a new system to make it feel ...

Emacs comes up with a proposed command line, “gdb”. We add the name of the executable file to debug, hello, and press Return. This tosses us into gdb mode, with the gdb prompt ready for action. We set ...

Along with the new GNU Emacs release of version 22.1, Aquamacs has announced that its specially tailored version of Emacs for Mac OS X has, at long last, hit 1.0. Aquamacs has been in development ...

EMACS: come for the Gameboy emulator, stay for the RSI-inducing spock pinches that are necessary to execute even the simples of commands. I’ll ctrl-x ctrl-c myself out.

So, for example, Ctrl-B and Ctrl-N can do exactly the same things in Emacs as they do in bash. In fact, Emacs-style key bindings are the default in bash. The tutorial should teach you basic cursor ...

While the rest of the world points and clicks in a world of icons, we in the world of Unix get to use a good old-fashioned command-line interface (CLI). One reason the command line has remained so ...