Workbench

Note to Self: Emacs Edition

Keybindings and such that I really ought to remember by now

Mode	Task	Command	Note
General
	Make text larger	C-x C-=
	Make text smaller	C-x C--
	Comment out the current line or region	comment-dwim (M-;)
	Get help for a function	C-h f <function name> RET
	See the current value of a variable	C-h v <variable name> RET
	Show all active keybindings for current buffer	C-h b
	Close =dired= buffers behind you as you navigate	(setq dired-kill-when-opening-new-dired-buffer t)
	Run a shell command and put its output into the current buffer	C-u M-!
	Pass the current region to a shell command and replace it with the output	M-|
Working with Buffers
	Save all buffers	C-x s !
Moving Around
	Go to start or end of buffer	M-< (start), M-> (end)
Org mode
	Open an agenda view restricted to the current buffer, subtree or region	C-a < (Then select an agenda)
	Detangle source code	org-babel-detangle (Important: must be run from the tangled source code buffer, not the original org file)
Dired
	Delete marked files	dired-do-delete (D)
Markdown
	Insert a table	markdown-insert-table (C-c C-s t)
	Insert a table column	markdown-table-insert-column (C-c S-<right>)	Row is inserted to the left of point
	Insert a table row	markdown-table-insert-row (C-c S-<down>)	Row is inserted above point
TRAMP
	Edit a file with sudo	C-x C-f /sudo::/etc/my/protected-file.conf
	Open a file over SSH	C-x C-f /ssh:user@example.com:/path/to/remote/file.txt
Dates
	Formatting dates+times	format-time-string (formatting reference)
Customization
	Set a variable in =.dir-locals.el=	M-x add-dir-local-variable

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Thu Nov 02 2023 08:11:06 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)