/0x01.-Emacs

Basic commands to use use the Emacs text editor efficiently

EMACS

It’s time to test and decide what will be your favorite text editor on your sandbox: Emacs or Vi.

Resources

Read or watch:

A Guided Tour of Emacs

Learning Objectives

  • At the end of this project, you are expected to be able to explain to anyone, without the help of Google:

General

  • What is Emacs
  • Who is Richard Stallman
  • How to open and save files
  • What is a buffer and how to switch from one to the other
  • How to use the mark and the point to set the region
  • How to cut and paste lines and regions
  • How to search forward and backward
  • How to invoke commands by name
  • How to undo
  • How to cancel half-entered commands
  • How to quit Emacs

Copyright - Plagiarism

  • You are tasked to come up with solutions for the tasks below yourself to meet with the above learning objectives.
  • You will not be able to meet the objectives of this or any following project by copying and pasting someone else’s work.
  • You are not allowed to publish any content of this project.
  • Any form of plagiarism is strictly forbidden and will result in removal from the program.

Requirements

All tasks must be done inside the sandbox Ubuntu 20.04

  • Your sandbox must be available at the end of this project - the Checker will access to it at midnight for running the correction
  • The answer of a task must be in a specific file
  • Each answer file must contain only the command to execute in Emacs for solving the task. Example: “What is the command to write buffer to a specified file?” -> the file should contain only C-x C-w