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my emacs key combos
Emacs Rails
C-c n Goto Mailer
C-c z '' RSpec Fixture
C-c x '' Fixture
C-c c '' Controller
C-c g '' Migration
C-c r '' RSpec
C-c u '' Unit Test
C-c m '' Model
Other Keys
C-x-c Quit
C-x-s Save file
C-x s Save all open files
C-x-w Save file as
C-x f Choose recent file (recentf-ido...) I changed this binding to recentf-open-files instead
C-x-f Find file (find or create)
C-x i Insert the contents of a file at cursor position
C-s Search through contents of active buffer regex allowed
C-r Search backwards
M-x replace-string RET String replace from here to end of buffer; prompts for string and replacement
M-x query-replace RET String replace from here to end of buffer, querying for each occurrence
M-x load-file RET (load a file, or reload a file that is already loaded)
M-x goto-line RET (goto a line and set mark from previous cursor position)
C-x b Switch buffer
C-x-b Show buffer list
C-x k Close buffer
C-x 2 Split current buffer horizontally
C-x 3 Split current buffer vertically
C-x 1 Make current buffer the only one
C-x o Switch between visible buffers
C-x-h Load URL - source into buffer
C-[SPACE] Set mark
C-w Cut and save text from here to mark
M-w Copy text from here to mark
C-y Paste saved text
C-k Cut text from the cursor to the end of the line
M-z Zap from cursor to a given character
C-x g Git repository (if current dir is a git repo it will show a file list)
C-g Cancel minibuffer
C-_ Undo
C-x u Redo (undo undo's)
C-x m Load shell
C-c-h Show key bindings
C-c a Org-agenda
Good Resources - some of which got into this file.
http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_examples.html - Very Helpful
http://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/newdocs/unx01101/unx01101.php3 - Very Helpful
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyingWholeLines - Very Helpful
http://www.rgrjr.com/emacs/emacs_cheat.html
http://xkahn.zoned.net/help/emacs.html
http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/Splus/Course99/emacsrefcard.html
http://www.stevenchan.us/files/Notesheet-Emacs.pdf
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