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emacs-everywhere

AutoHotkey script to provide basic Emacs key bindings for various Windows apps

To use:

  1. Clone/download all the files to a folder.
  2. Download and install AutoHotkey
  3. Double-click EmacsEverywhere.ahk to launch.
  4. Ctrl+Alt+Enter toggles whether Emacs mode is active.
C-p	Previous line (move up)
C-n	Next line (move down)
C-f	Forward one character (move right) Note: conflicts with normal "find" shortcut
C-b	Back one character (move left) Note: conflicts with normal "bold" shortcut
M-f	Forward one word
M-b	Back one word
C-a	Start of line Note: conflicts with normal "Select all" shortcut
C-e	End of line
C-<	Start of page
C->	End of page
C-_	Undo
C-/ Undo
C-d	Delete character after cursor
M-d	Delete word after cursor
C-Backspace	Delete word before cursor
C-k	Kill line
C-w	Cut region
M-w	Copy region
C-y	Paste (no kill ring, so don’t get full Emacs yank ability)
C-Space Set mark
C-g Clear mark
M-< Goto home
M-> Goto end
C-o Open line above cursor
C-w Delete selection
C-S-f Send Ctrl-f (e.g., to trigger a 'Find' dialog)
C-u Universal arg - increase numeric prefix by multiples of 4 (for repeating movement/deletion commands)
C-M-F12 Reloads the script after making edits

Basic Emacs key bindings are supported for the following programs:

  • Notepad
  • FreeCommander XE
  • Cmd and PowerShell
  • P4V
  • Firefox address bar
  • Office Communicator / Skype
  • MusicBee
  • Visual Studio and R#
  • PyCharm
  • Outlook email editor
  • Word dialogs (Emacs key bindings for Word are available through VBacs

It should be fairly straightforward to add support to other programs. Feel free to contribute.

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