This package customizes Spacemacs with a set of keybindings and behaviours that will be familiar to a Microsoft Windows user. The keybindings were created by analysing shortcuts in Visual Studio, Notepad++, Windows itself, the CUA standard, and to a small extent Microsoft Office.
A spreadsheet was then created summarising the differences. It can be seen here (ods format).
CUA-mode is used, so that the familiar C-x, C-c, C-v keybindings work. Some Emacs functions have been moved to different keys (search is C-f, for example), but a surprisingly large number remain on their default keys.
This layer installs a minimal set of small packages, it doesn't bring in anything heavyweight, just enough to create some handy keybindings.
The easiest way is to clone this repo directly into your Spacemacs layers folder:
git clone https://github.com/PhilipDaniels/windows-defaults ~/.emacs.d/layers/windows-defaults
Alternatively, you can clone to an arbitrary folder, but you must add that folder to your custom layer load path, for example:
dotspacemacs-configuration-layer-path '("~/repos/spacemacs")
After either of the above, then just add windows-defaults to your
dotspacemacs-configuration-layers variable in your .spacemacs file in the usual way.
CUA mode is turned on. From the manual:
When CUA mode is enabled, the keys C-x, C-c, C-v, and C-z invoke commands
that cut (kill), copy, paste (yank), and undo respectively. The C-x and C-c
keys perform cut and copy only if the region is active. Otherwise, they
still act as prefix keys, so that standard Emacs commands like C-x C-c still
work.
The standard meaning of the arrow keys is preserved:
C-<arrow> means "move by words"
S-<arrow> means "extend selection"
C-S-<arrow> means "extend selection while moving by words"
In addition, the windmove and buf-move packages are used to make moving
around windows very quick and easy:
M-<arrow> means "select window in that direction"
M-S-<arrow> means "swap this buffer with that one"
The package cycle-buffer is used to quickly cycle the selected buffer within a
window.
C-<PgUp>/<PgDn> means "select next/prev *interesting* buffer"
S-<PgUp>/<PgDn> means "select next/prev buffer showing *all* buffers"
In addition, C-<tab> will bring up helm-mini, by analogy with the
quick-switch window in Visual Studio.
C-o means "open file" (via helm-find-files)
M-o means "find alternate file" (e.g. flip from .cpp to .hpp)
C-S-o means "reread file from disk"
C-M-o means "reopen using sudo"
C-n means "new file"
C-s means "save file"
M-s means "save as" (renames buffer and file)
C-M-s means "save a copy" (saves a copy to a new file, keep working with current)
C-S-s means "save all" (with prompting)
C-' means "expand region". Also on F2 (by analogy with MS Excel).
C-@ means "shrink region". Also on S-F2.
C-S-a means "select all" (unfortunately `C-a` is too common to rebind)
M-c means "copy current line or the region's line"
C-M-c means "duplicate current line or the region's lines"
M-g means "go to something" (Spacemacs default key)
C-i means "indent buffer" a.k.a. "format document"
C-j means "delete all whitespace around point EXCEPT for a newline" - "j = join"
M-j means "delete all whitespace around point"
C-S-j means "delete all whitespace around point EXCEPT for one space"
C-l means "delete the entire line"
M-q means "fill or unfill this paragraph" - repeated use toggles
C-u means "toggle case" - switches between lowercase, UPPERCASE and Cap Case.
M-v means "show pastable items"
C-y means "repeat the last command"
C-<return> means "select a rectangle"
C-S-<return> means "new line below"
C-M-<return> means "new line above"
C-u works on the region, or the whole word if no region is selected, removing
the need to go to the beginning of the word before invoking it.
C-f means "find"
M-f means "regex find"
C-r means "find backwards"
M-r means "regex find backwards"
C-h means "query replace"
M-h means "query replace the entire buffer"
C-S-h means "query replace regex"
Two extremely useful keys, which work even on remote (TRAMP) files.
C-S-t means "give me a terminal (shell) in the same directory as this file"
C-S-d means "give me a dired in the same directory as this file"
The recentf-ext package is used to make recentf-mode also remember directories.
Shells are created using the better-shell package, which tries to find an idle shell to reuse, but creates a new one if none are available.
M-S-<return> means "toggle full screen"
F1 is the help key. e.g. "F1 f" gets help on functions.
M-F5 means "redraw window"
M-<backspace> means "undo" (Windows standard).
- Visual Studio function keys - or defer such things to realgud, which has some VS-compatible keybindings?
- After exiting CUA rectangle mark mode C-z is no longer undo
- M-q doesn't always toggle paragraph filling
- Multiple cursors
- TAGS / GNU Global
- Code folding
- Registers?
- Bookmarks?
- See spreadsheet for others