Mousemacs is an Emacs setup for those who want the power of Emacs but also want to use a mouse.
Mousemacs comes with the following:
- Standard keyboard shortcuts for cut/copy/paste.
- Similar keyboard shortcuts to Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text.
- File open in tabs and can be closed with a menu.
- A useful context menu with useful shortcuts.
- A built in file explorer (NeoTree).
Underneath Mousemacs is still Emacs.
- Install Emacs.
- Back up your current emacs config.
- Git clone Mousemacs as below:
git clone https://github.com/corvideon/mousemacs.git ~/.emacs.d
- Restart Emacs and Mousemacs will take a few moments to download and install all packages.
- Standard key bindings for cut/copy/paste work.
- Switch tabs with Ctrl-Tab.
- Home/End work as expected.
| Keys | Function |
|---|---|
| Ctrl-s | Save file buffer |
| Ctrl-a | Select all |
| Ctrl-n | New empty file buffer |
| Ctrl-o | Open file |
| Ctrl-k | Close file buffer |
| Ctrl-Shift-b | Open file buffer list |
| Ctrl-Shift-r | Open recent file list |
| Ctrl-q | Quit Emacs |
| Ctrl-w | Switch window |
| Ctrl-f | Find in buffer (Swiper) |
| Ctrl-Shift-p or Standard Emacs M-x | Run command |
| Ctrl-r | Goto anything (Emacs command is imenu-anywhere) |
| Ctrl-e or F8 | Toggle file explorer |
| Ctrl-b | Open other file buffer |
The main interface with file explorer. Note the friendly 'Files' button on the menu to toggle it:
The file tabs:
The context menu available on the tab bar:
The context menu which has shortcuts to lots of useful things such as window tools, buffer lists and more:
