Spacemacs

The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Emacs

Spacemacs: Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil

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Configuring emacs to use eslint and babel with flycheck for javascript and React.js JSX | CodeWinds

Useful keybindings

Reading keybindings:

C-[something] C in this context is Ctrl , so it would be Ctrl + whatever in square braces

M-[something] M in this context is “Meta”, option on mac keyboard, Alt on Windows keyboard

• Visual mode

  SPC v Enter enhanced visual mode

  v expand selection

  V contract selection

• Text editing

  r replace character under cursor

  R replace on line

  u undo

  R redo

  d w Delete word

  d d Delete line

  D Delete line (leaves whitespace)

  c w Change word

  C Cut from cursor to line end and enter insert mode

  Multiple cursors

  g r m Create cursors on all matching text (having done a / search in file)

  g r q Remove all cursors leaving just the main cursor

  g r h Create cursor at point

  d i [char] Delete all inside char

  d a [char] Delete all including char

  y i [char] “Yank” all inside char

  y a [char] “Yank” all including char

  c s [from] [to] Change surrounding char from - to

  e.g. c s ( { will change surrounding () to {}

  c i [char] Change all inside char

  e.g. c i " will delete all inside nearest opening " to closing " and enter insert mode

  c a [char] Change all including char

  e.g. c a " will delete all from nearest " to closing " and enter insert mode

• Code navigation

  [number] G Go to line number

  : [number] Go to line number

  g d Go to definition

  g D Go to definition in a new window

  z c Close fold

  z o Open fold

  g c c Comment line

  SPC ; ; Comment line

  v [select] g c c Comment selection

  z c Close fold

  z o Open fold

• Movement

  M-f forward word

  M-b backward word

  0 Start of line

  ^ Start of non-whitespace

  $ End of non-whitespace

  % Jump forward to next paren, further % toggles between open and close parens

  { Jump to previous empty line

  } Jump to next empty line

  f [char] Find character forward

  F [char] Find character backward

  C-u Jump up half a page

  C-d Jump down half a page

Useful commands

whitespace-cleanup does what it says on the tin

Problems I’ve had:

Starting eslint server

Unknown command: `asdf exec node .../path/to/eslintServer.js`

Fix:

Manually delete .spacemacs.env and regenerate: SPC f e E

Setup Spacemacs with asdf-vm