The Ultimate Doom Emacs Cheatsheet

Because GitHub’s render is inconsistent with real emacs experience, it is recommended that you download this file and open it in Emacs. Another HTML version of this org file, made with org-html-themes, is also available here. This render, too, doesn’t offer what you experience with Emacs.

Command Abbreviations

• C - “Control” key
• M - “M” or “option/alt” key
• s - “Command” key
• SPC - “Space” key

General

• SPC f s for saving the current file
• SPC : for entering a command
• SPC q q to close Emacs
• SPC f D to delete this file

Projects with Projectile

• SPC p p to open a project
• SPC SPC to open a file in a project
• SPC o p to open the file explorer
• SPC o e to open the shell in fullscreen
• SPC o E to open the shell in a popup window
• SPC f r recently visited files
• SPC f R recently visited files in a project
• M-x projectile-discover-projects-in-directory to find projects within given folder using Projectile
• M-x projectile-discover-projects-in-search-path to find projects in the folder defined by the projectile-project-search-path variable using Projectile

Dired

• Dired (Directory Editor) is how you interfaces with a directory
• Press C-x d to open dired.
• Use RET to go to a folder or open a file.
• Use - for going one folder back
• Use + for creating a new directory
• Use d to mark the files for deletion, press x to delete.
• Use M to change permissions
• Use o to sort by modes.
• Use O to change the owner.
• Use m to mark and u to unmark files or directories.
• U to unselect all
• Use t to invert the selection.
• t to switch between files and directories
• Use C to copy.
• Use R to move.
• Move with h, j, k, l
• Toggle ( for simple view
• SPC . to create or find a file
• * to select all directories.
• C copy to another window
• R move to another window
• dired-do-what-i-mean-target set to true
• i to edit file/dir name

Buffers, Windows and Basic Navigation

• Buffers are a special concept in emacs they can be terminals, files, directories, etc
• SPC b b to open another buffer
  • workspace buffer
• SPC b B you can see all the buffer
• SPC , to switch buffers (its an alias)
• SPC SHIFT , to switch to all buffers
• SPC b X You can create a scratch buffer
• SPC b s to save and name it
• CTRL w v window split vertically
• CTRL w s window split horizonal
• CTRL w w to switch windows
• You can use the vim motion keys to navigate between open windows
• Windows are panes in your screen
• CTLR + = to make the windows equal size

Installing Packages with org-super-agenda as an example

• SPC f p to open the config.
• To add a package, add the package to .doom.d/package.el
• Then close and doom refresh
• Then go to .doom.d/config.el to configure the package
• def-package! is a macro you can use to configure packages
  • space h help you can look up method man pages
  • :init is used for setting the package up
  • :config to set configuration after the package has been initialized
  • :after lets you set which package it should load after
• You can use :after! to configure packages that are already there

Quick, horizontal movements with evil-snipe

Inine navigation

• f and then the letter you want to navigate to.
  • , will go backward
  • ; will go forward after that “find”
• t to find and move cursor to the charachter before what you’ve searched.
• v puts you in visual mode. You can select text by with v t some-char-you-navigate-to or v f some-char-you-navigate-to
• ; to jump to the next find
• , to jump to the previous one
• s to snipe

Long distance navigation inside the file

• Evil-snipe lets you go to all the occuranses in your document
• g s SPC to use avy and going to a certain word in file.
• t is the same thing except for a character you want to jump to before the one you insert
• s to do a double character search
• Evil-snipe will remember your last search so , and ; will navigate
• F or T to go backwards
• g s SPC and then select the letter that avy gives you to navigate to that spot
  • These letters are on your home row so they are easy to click
• SPC h v for variable, to set the avy variable to search all open windows
  • avy-all-windows lets you search in all windows open.
• You can remove a word with g s SPC select-one-letter x select-the-removal-spot
  • You can use X to stay in your original spot of search
• You can go g s space select-one-letter i select-the-correction-spot to correct the spelling of the search
  • Install ispell on your OS first
• You can yank a word from one place to another with g s SPC select-one-letter y select-the-correction-spot-to-paste
• Use t to “teleport” the word from one place to another g s SPC select-one-letter t select-the-correction-spot-to-teleport

Multiple cursor in Emacs with Evil-multiedit

• Make selections and then edit those selections interactively
• M d will select the current word, and again will find another occurance
• M D will find the occurence upward
• You can use a visual selection to select multiple words.
• R will select all occurances
• CTRL n for next selection CTRL p for previous
• Exclude matches with RET
• You can make an edit and the changes will be reflected in all the selection

Org Mode

Basics

• Org mode gives you structure to your document
• * for a h1 ** for an h2 and so on
• You can TAB a section to fold a subtree (hide it)
• You can use SHIFT TAB to cycle through folded states
• CTRL return to create a headline of the same type
• M arrow up lets you shift the position of the section
• M h promotes a headline to the next level
• M l demotes
• You can create lists
  1. onw
  2. 2
  3. wooo
  4. 3

Links, Hyperlinks and more

• SPC m l to add a link to an org page
• You can add :: to specify a heading or a line number
• You can paste http links as well
• You can “link” some text with specific code SPC m l elisp: (+ 2 2) when you click the link, emacs will evaluate the expression
• Show My Agenda
• List Files in directory

Defining custoom Link Types

• Whatch the video about custom links

Linking to words & Bookmarks

• SPC n l stores a link to a particular headline

Code Snippets & Babel

• SPC i s for inserting code snippets
  • Example:

    (+ 2 3 4 5)
            

• C-c C-c to execute the code.
• SPC m ' to edit inside the babel in another buffer.
• Results will show up in a ##+RESULTS header
• This feature is called Babel
• One snippet can consume the output of another snippet
• You can create your own snippets in the following directory: ~/.doom.d/snippets/

Task Management

• Create a task by prefixing any heading with TODO
• DONE means the task is done
• You can create your custom key words by changing this variable: org-todo-keywords
  • remember you can get to your variables through SPC h v (M-x counsel-describe-variable)
  • These values are already set in Doom:

       ((sequence "TODO(t)" "PROJ(p)" "STRT(s)" "WAIT(w)" "HOLD(h)" "|" "DONE(d)" "KILL(k)")
    (sequence "[ ](T)" "[-](S)" "[?](W)" "|" "[X](D)"))
            

• SPC m t to change a status of a todo
• SHIFT left and SHIFT right can be used to change the status of a todo as well.
• If you finish a task with a command, org mode will add a date that you “closed” the task.
• SPC o a t to open the agenda -> todo list
• q to quit
• org-agenda-files is a variable you can set to filter which files agenda searches for todos in.

Priorities for Tasks

• SHIFT up and SHIFT down will toggle the priority of tasks
• org-fancy-priorities gives you fancy looking priorities

Marking Tasks with Tags

• Tags can be attached to any headlines
• SPC m q to tag a headline
• Example:
  • TODO play more games :fun:
• Tags are hierarchical so nested headings will be tagged with the parent header tag
• org-tag-sparce-tree will search for headings that only have a specific tag

Setting a poperty for a task/headline

• SPC m o is used for setting a property.

Marking Headlines with Categories

• You can use categories to change the label in agenda view.

Org-Habits

• If you want to keep track of your habits using org mode, you can set the STYLE property to habit.
  • If you want to set a category (for chani

Lists

• Two types of lists, ordered and unordered lists
  • SHIFT right and SHIFT left can be used to change the type of lists.
• You can also change an unorded list by changing the first item to 1. and then typing C-c C-c and vice verca.

Checkboxes

• [ ] This is still todo
• [-] This is in progress
• [X] This is a done task

You can see how many are done with a “cookie” [1/2]

• [-] Task 1
• [X] Task 2
• You can do this by adding [/] to the heading and pressing C-c C-c
• You can’t assign a tag or a priority

Magit

• magit is configured for you
• SPC g g to show Magit status Page
• most commands are done from the status page
• press ? to see what you can do
• git add -p lets you stage in hunks
• Open and close with the TAB
• Open diff view for a file with TAB
• s to stage a change
• u to undo a change
• c to commit
• b s for branch and spinoff to create another branch, rewinding the commits you made to master
• b b to switch branches

Git Commit Flow in More Detail

• t t to create a tag, default place is the commit you are currently selecting
• V to select a change in a diff and x to discard that change.
• s to stage
• c to commit, you can q to quit the commit screen
• P to push and then p to your remote or u to a another remote

Magit with Forge for Issuing Pull Requests - Emacs

• Forge is installed in emacs doom
• @ for forge
• Set up forge with M x forge-pull
  • the first time you will get a token from github
• @ c p to create a pull request with forge
  • select the base branch
  • then select the target branch
  • then provide a short description
  • CTRL c CTRL c to finish the pull request
• Now there will be a pull requests tab

Terminal

• Set up vterm in your init.el file.
• SPC o T for opening vterm

File Tree

• Set up neotree in your init.el file.
• SPC o p for neotree

Others

• C-c C-z to insert a note for a heading in org mode.

• Note taken on [2020-12-18 Fri 21:52]
  Like this!

• C-c C-c to insert a tag for a heading in org mode.

Capturing

• SPC X to capture (the new thing gets caputured to a single file but that’s fine since we can easily refile it.)
• SPC m r r to refile

Org Roam

Tags

• SPC m m t to put roam tags on an org file.

Sources

• Link to youtube video series
• This org file is mostly from the notes taken from the series above by ianjones.us

What to learn [0/4]

• [ ] Org-journal
• [ ] Org Roam
• [ ] abbrev-mode
• [ ] Org-super-agenda