catweazle9 / emacs-everywhere

AutoHotkey script to provide basic Emacs key bindings for Windows

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.

emacs-everywhere's Issues

swap caps lock and ctrl

It's pretty common to use caps lock as a control. However, simply swapping them makes the entire invalid since ^ is now caps lock. Do you have any ideas on how to tell autohotkeys to use caps lock as ^ in the script?

Disable it for specific apps

This is not an issue, I just don't know how to disable it for a specific application, I'm trying to disable it for VSCode.

Contributions

Are you guys interested in contributions to this? I've added a bunch new features that come from standard emacs:

• Browser hot keys: switch tabs like emacs, C-x Left, C-x Right. New tab, C-x C-f, new window, C-x 5 2, refresh C-L and more.

• Reverse undo/redo direction after C-g

• C-u input to specify repeat #

• Transpose functions, C-t, M-t, C-x C-t

• select all C-x h

• Replace M-%

• Grow window taller, C-x ^

• Kill window C-c C-c

• Forward and back paragraph M-} and M-{

.. and others

How do I add programs that I want the keybindings to work with?

Do you have to find the right name of the program in order for it to work? For example I would like to use the keybindings within the Windows Start Menu search bar. I tried by adding programs to the list like below, which works for some programs, but not for others:

; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - RStudio; don't work
; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - rstudio; don't work
; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - File Manager ; don't work
; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - File Explorer ; don't work
; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Windows File Manager ; don't work
; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Zoom ; don't work
; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - SpotifyMainWindow ; don't work or Spotify etc
; GroupAdd, Explorer, ahk_class CabinetWClass ;doesn't work
; GroupAdd, Explorer, ahk_class CabinetWClass ;doesn't work
; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, ahk_class ExploreWClass ;doesn't work
; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, ahk_class ExploreWClass ;doesn't work
; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - PyCharm_2020.3.5 ; doesn't work
; GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - pythonw ; doesn't work
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - PowerPoint
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Maple_2020
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Maple
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Adobe_Acrobat_Reader_DC_-_Nederlands
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Adobe
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Adobe_Acrobat_Reader_DC
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - MozillaWindowClass
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Word
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - OneNote
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Microsoft Office
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - LibreOffice Writer
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - VLC media player
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Excel
GroupAdd, EmacsApps, - Discord

Thank you for your script, don't want to use my computer without it!

Backspace/Del bug in normal mode

This script is great!
But I found when I switch to normal mode from emacs mode, in VS2017 or notepad, the Backspace and Delete keys went crazy!
They don't back/forward delete any characters, instead, when you press backspace or delete key, there will be really a string "Backspace" or "Delete"(without quotation marks) on your text filed or input method.
This bug doesn't happen in any other applications outside the default app list.