One of my goals for 2008 is to work on my Emacs-fu, i.e. learn more of the nice abilities that Emacs has. I read a lot of Emacs-centric blogs and programming.reddit.com sometimes has some nice things. But how can I remember those nice things? And how can I get the nice items that Emacs already has built-in that I read about, but can never get integrated into my brain?

This post suggests what could be a winning solution for me – make a Emacs cheatsheet with those items you want to embed into your brain. Every few weeks, evaluate what you have on there, add new items, remove non-useful things, etc. I think will work wonderful for me! And, you know, why not post my new cheatsheets on my blog when I change them out?

So here is my first Emacs Cheatsheet for 2008. If the commands don’t come with standard Gnu Emacs, then I will link to the page I got it from.

M-@	select word
M-d	kill up to the end of a word
M-t	transpost
M-h	mark paragraph
<f4>	re-run last kbd-macro
totd	tip of the day
C-x 0	close this window
calc	learn it!
C-c l	copy a line without selecting
C-c p	copy a paragraph without selecting