July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Keystrokes Command name Description
C-s isearch-forward Incremental search forward.
C-r isearch-backward Incremental search backward
M-% query-replace Search and replace.
C-M-s Enter re-search-forward Regular expression search forward.
C-M-r Enter re-search-backward Regular expression search backward
Keystrokes Command name Description
M-c capitalize-word Capitalize first letter of word.
M-u upcase-word Uppercase word.
M-l downcase-word Lowercase word.
M-- M-c negative-argument; capitalize-word Capitalize previous word.
M-- M-u negative-argument; upcase-word Uppercase previous word.
M-- M-l negative-argument; downcase-word Lowercase previous word.
(none) capitalize-region Capitalize region.
C-x C-u upcase-region Uppercase region
C-x C-l downcase-region Lowercase region.
Keystrokes Command name Description
(none) abbrev-mode Enter (or exit) word abbreviation mode.
C-x a i g inverse-add-global-abbrev Type global abbreviation, then definition.
C-x a i l inverse-add-local-abbrev Type local abbreviation, then definition.
(none) unexpand-abbrev Undo the last word abbreviation.
(none) write-abbrev-file Write the word abbreviation file.
(none) edit-abbrevs Edit the word ...
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