Summary

This is a list of some niggles and how I deal with them as a reference.

Deleting the first ‘x’ characters from every line in a region with Emacs.

You use your mark tool (‘C-Spc’) to highlight a box area and then use the command ‘C-x r k’ to remove this square/rectangle.

Don’t worry about the mark tool highlighting the edges of lines in between, they won’t be clipped.

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Handy way to append a flag to the end of a line.

Command: M-< M-x replace-regexp RET $ RET a RET

This will place an ‘a’ at the end of all lines. The $ matches the end-of-line character.

Also one of the other answers shows how to use key-macros so could be handy later.

Reload configurations without restarting Emacs

A quick way to reload your .emacs after making changes, to save a restart.

``` html // M-x eval-buffer ```

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Finding location of .emacs file.

C-h v ‘user-init-file’

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