Emacs Rocks! Episode 04: A rebind controversy

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Welcome to emacs rocks, episode four.

Today I'll go all controversial on you -

and rebind some emacs keys.

That's what emacs is all about isn't it?

Sharpening that knife.

But first, a cool set of keystrokes.

I'm switching to buster.js for my javascript tests these days

and the syntax is slightly different

watch how quickly I can go from one to the other

done! hah

did you see the first keystroke?

ctrl-s is excellent for navigating

but for short distances, it's suboptimal

watch this

I have to press enter to exit from the search, to start typing

so let vim show the way with its excellent F-command

move to char

there's an extension called iy-go-to-char that does much the same

I mapped it to meta-m, as in move

yes, that keystroke is usually back to indentation

but I find a much better mnemonic for that is meta-i

so ... meta-m t, and I can press period right away

meta-l for lower case,

which conveniently moves my cursor to the end of the word

forward, and transpose-word

we had transpose-line and transpose-char in a previous episode

so this is transpose-word ... nice, huh?

so, iy-go-to-char - you can just google it

it's really nice

you don't have to bind it to the same key as me if you find that controversial

I see that the suggested keystroke is ctrl-c f

since it's supposed to be a short command for quick navigation,

I want to have it on one keystroke

let's take a look at another example

here's a misspelled word - and another

to quickly fix those I press:

meta-m p e

meta-m o, and o again, t

very nice

that was episode four

hope you enjoyed it

see you next time