Emacs

Interesting Shortcuts

C-x C-x - as a side effect, this activates the region.

C-h l - view-lossage. This splits your window in two and shows you what keys you have pressed.

C-x { - shrink-window-horizontally

C-x } - enlarge-window-horizontally

C-s M-y - search for the marked text

.emacs settings

Saving bookmarks - (setq bookmark-save-flag 1)

Showing matching parentheses in GNU Emacs - (setq show-paren-mode t) or (setq show-paren-style 'parenthesis)

Showing parentheses when writing the closing parenthesis - (setq blink-matchin-paren t)

Use a visible bell - (setq visible-bell t)