I wanted to learn emacs and discovered that it doesn't work well in console mode because of my swedish keyboard.The problem is with keys like \\. To use backslash in a key combination, say M-\\, I ...

An old joke is that Emacs is a text editor with an operating system included, given that its extensibility and customization often goes far beyond traditional text editors. Part of its well-earned … ...

You can use Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N instead of the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the command history. You can use other Emacs keystrokes to edit command lines. To make bash use vi keys, edit a ...