The window-system variable tells Lisp programs what window system Emacs is running under. The possible values are x Emacs is displaying the frame using X. w32 Emacs is displaying the frame using native MS-Windows GUI. ns Emacs is displaying the frame using the Nextstep interface (used on GNUstep and Mac OS X). pc Emacs is … Read more
I type M-x delete-region quite often, but you can bind it it to a key. With Delete Selection Mode in newer versions of Emacs you don’t have to type a command just start typing: By default, text insertion occurs normally even if the mark is active—for example, typing a inserts the character ‘a’, then deactivates … Read more
You can either press C-j to accept what you have typed so far, or C-f which will drop you into regular find-file
Try C-x C-+ and C-x C–; that is, Control–x Control–Minus/Control–Plus. After one combination (C-x C-+ or C-x C–), successives + or – increase or decrease the text scale without typing C-x C- again. Addition by sawa I looked up the function that was assigned to the keys mentioned, and found out that they are text-scale-increase … Read more
C-x 3 twice followed by C-x + to equally size all windows.
You can also do the following in your .emacs file. Emacs 23.1 (set-frame-font “Inconsolata 12” nil t) Older versions of Emacs (set-default-font “Inconsolata 12” nil t)
M-x menu-bar-open, which is usually bound to F10. This works with and without menu-bar-mode (which just shows the names of the menus at the top of the screen).
M-x eval-buffer
(setq split-height-threshold nil) (setq split-width-threshold 0) GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual: Choosing Window Options