0x02. Emacs

Congrats!

Congrats!

Now you know how to navigate into a Unix system!

It’s time to test and decide what will be your favorite text editor on your sandbox: Emacs or Vi.

During this project you will play with Emacs.

Resources

• A Guided Tour of Emacs

Learning Objectives

At the end of this project, you are expected to be able to explain to anyone, without the help of Google

General

• What is Emacs

• Who is Richard Stallman

• How to open and save files

• What is a buffer and how to switch from one to the other

• How to use the mark and the point to set the region

• How to cut and paste lines and regions

• How to search forward and backward

• How to invoke commands by name

• How to undo

• How to cancel half-entered commands

• How to quit Emacs

Copyright - Plagiarism

• You are tasked to come up with solutions for the tasks below yourself to meet with the above learning objectives.

• You will not be able to meet the objectives of this or any following project by copying and pasting someone else’s work.

• You are not allowed to publish any content of this project.

• Any form of plagiarism is strictly forbidden and will result in removal from the program.

Requirements

• All tasks must be done inside the sandbox Ubuntu 20.04

• The answer of a task must be in a specific file

• Each answer file must contain only the command to execute in Emacs for solving the task. Example: “What is the command to write buffer to a specified file?” -> the file should contain only C-x C-w

Tasks

0. Create your answer directory

Navigate to /root and create a directory named 0x02_emacs

1. Opening

What is the command to open a file from within emacs?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x02_emacs/opening.

You can validate if the format of your answer is correct by displaying the file information:

root@hex:~# ls -l /root/0x02_emacs/opening -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 Nov 11 04:34 /root/0x02_emacs/opening root@hex:~#

2. Saving

What is the command to save a file?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x02_emacs/saving.

3. Cutting

What is the command to cut an entire line?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x02_emacs/cutting.

4. Pasting

What is the command to paste?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x02_emacs/pasting.

5. Searching

What is the command to search forward?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x02_emacs/searching.

6. Undoing

What is the command to undo?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x02_emacs/undoing.

7.Quiting

What is the command to quit Emacs?

Write the answer into the file /root/0x02_emacs/quitting.