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Emacs has many commands designed to understand the syntax of programming
languages such as Lisp and C. These commands can
The commands for words, sentences and paragraphs are very useful in
editing code even though their canonical application is for editing
human language text. Most symbols contain words (see section Words);
sentences can be found in strings and comments (see section Sentences).
Paragraphs per se don't exist in code, but the paragraph commands are
useful anyway, because programming language major modes define
paragraphs to begin and end at blank lines (see section Paragraphs).
Judicious use of blank lines to make the program clearer will also
provide useful chunks of text for the paragraph commands to work
on.
The selective display feature is useful for looking at the overall
structure of a function (see section Selective Display). This feature causes
only the lines that are indented less than a specified amount to appear
on the screen.
- Program Modes: Major modes for editing programs.
- Lists: Expressions with balanced parentheses.
- List Commands: The commands for working with list and sexps.
- Defuns: Each program is made up of separate functions.
There are editing commands to operate on them.
- Program Indent: Adjusting indentation to show the nesting.
- Matching: Insertion of a close-delimiter flashes matching open.
- Comments: Inserting, killing, and aligning comments.
- Balanced Editing: Inserting two matching parentheses at once, etc.
- Symbol Completion: Completion on symbol names of your program or language.
- Documentation: Getting documentation of functions you plan to call.
- Change Log: Maintaining a change history for your program.
- Tags: Go direct to any function in your program in one
command. Tags remembers which file it is in.
- Emerge: A convenient way of merging two versions of a program.
- C Mode: Special commands of C mode (and C++ mode).
- Fortran: Fortran mode and its special features.
- Asm Mode: Asm mode and its special features.
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