Common requests
- How do I set up an init file properly?
- How do I start using Customize?
- How do I get colors and syntax highlighting on a TTY?
- How do I debug an init file?
- How do I make Emacs display the current line (or column) number?
- How can I modify the titlebar to contain the current file name?
- How do I turn on abbrevs by default just in mode
mymode? - How do I make Emacs use a certain major mode for certain files?
- How can I replace highlighted text with what I type?
- How do I control Emacs’s case-sensitivity when searching/replacing?
- How do I search for, delete, or replace unprintable (eight-bit or control) characters?
- How do I input a newline character in isearch or query-replace?
- How do I copy text from the kill ring into the search string?
- How do I make Emacs wrap words for me?
- How do I turn on
auto-fill-modeby default? - How do I change
load-path? - How do I use an already running Emacs from another window?
- How do I make Emacs recognize my compiler’s funny error messages?
- How do I change the indentation for
switch? - How to customize indentation in C, C
++, and Java buffers? - How do I make Emacs “typeover” or “overwrite” instead of inserting?
- How do I stop Emacs from beeping on a terminal?
- How do I turn down the bell volume in Emacs running under X?
- How do I tell Emacs to automatically indent a new line to the indentation of the previous line?
- How do I show which parenthesis matches the one I’m looking at?
- In C mode, can I show just the lines that will be left after
#ifdefcommands are handled by the compiler? - How do I repeat a command as many times as possible?
- What are the valid X resource settings (i.e., stuff in .Xdefaults)?
- How do I execute (“evaluate”) a piece of Emacs Lisp code?
- How do I change Emacs’s idea of the TAB character’s length?
- How do I insert <some text> at the beginning of every line?
- How do I make Emacs behave like this: when I go up or down, the cursor should stay in the same column even if the line is too short?
- How do I tell Emacs to iconify itself?
- How do I use regexps (regular expressions) in Emacs?
- How do I perform a replace operation across more than one file?
- Where is the documentation for
etags? - How do I disable backup files?
- How do I disable
auto-save-mode? - Making Emacs write all auxiliary files somewhere else
- How can I go to a certain line given its number?
- How can I create or modify new pull-down menu options?
- How do I delete menus and menu options?
- How do I turn on syntax highlighting?
- How can I force Emacs to scroll only one line when I move past the bottom of the screen?
- How can I edit Windows files using Emacs?
- How can I tell Emacs to fill paragraphs with a single space after each period?
- Why these strange escape sequences from
lsfrom the Shell mode? - How can I start Emacs in full screen?
- How can I alleviate the limitations of the Linux console?