Lesson 1

Journey to being a better emacs user

• Made some changes to init.el
• setup and install melpa

Lesson 2

Part 1

• reviewed init.el
• Learned how to insert a link
• Click here to open Google
• Learned how to fold titles in org mode
• Made readme.org, to document this journey
• C-x C-L to insert link
• C-x C-o to open link on default browser
• Tab on title line, to fold
• Alt + <ARROW> to change order of titles

Part 2 - Subtitle Example

Hey this is a subtitle for Lesson 2

Lesson 3

• Everything in emacs is a function - elisp
• (function-name) -> then use C-x C-e to run this line
• eg: (setq v 100) -> will set v to value 100
• eg: (eval-last-sexp) -> will evaluate the last expression
• M-x view-lossage -> shows history of commands used
• Editted init.el to remove toolbar

Lesson 4

Buffers

• use buffers as much as possible
• C-x C-f to open a new file into a new buffer
• C-x b -> to switch between buffers
• can infact use C-x b to open a new buffer, do whatevre, and then can save into a file
• C-x C-b will show a list of open buffers
• C-x b ? will show list of available buffers in short form
• made some changes to init.el file - to add new buffer listing, and optional tab bar

Lesson 5

Windows

• window is a pane in emacs
• C-x 2/3/1 (horizontal/vertical/one window)
• C-x o -> to switch between windows (added ace-window functionality in init.el)

Lesson 6

Search (Swiper)

• Installed swiper - better search than I-search
• changed init.el to reflect this change, installed counsel and swiper

Lesson 7

Avy (jumping to chars)

• Cleaned up swiper to bind to C-s
• Added Avy to search for chars, binded to M-s

Lesson 8

Autocomplete

• added package “auto-complete” for emacs
• maybe check out company mode

Lesson 9

Themes - already done, using zenburn-theme currently

Lesson 10

• Using org file for a well formatted init file
• Using org-babel-laod-file to load myinit.org which has elisp code blocks seperated into nice orgranised blocks