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  █▌                 -   EMACS BASICS & TROUBLE SHOOTING  -                  █▌
 █▌                                                                           █▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ And who knew you could have so many headaches with a text editor...        ▐▌
 █ This is for working with Emacs in the terminal.                            ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ I'm a pico/nano (Linux) and a Notepad++ (Win) user. I rarely use Emacs.    ▐▌
 █ I made this so I can refer back to it and maybe others that like me just   ▐▌
 █ need a QUICK BASIC baby help file to go with (decode) Emacs' help manual.  ▐▌
 █ Of course once one starts to get the hang of Emacs the help manual makes   ▐▌
 █ much more sense.                                                           ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ An emacs joke I found, don't do this!:                                     ▐▌
 █ How to Use Emacs                                                           ▐▌
 █ First, you need to 'remember' where emacs is, using the 'rm' (remember)    ▐▌
 █ command:                                                                   ▐▌
 █ rm -f 'which emacs'                                                        ▐▌
 █ Next, you need to tell the system that you want to use emacs in 'visual'   ▐▌
 █ mode:                                                                      ▐▌
 █ alias emacs=vi                                                             ▐▌
 █ Now, you're all set to use emacs! To edit a file, just type                ▐▌
 █ emacs filename                                                             ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ And                                                                        ▐▌
 █ Emacs is a great operating system - it lacks a good editor, though.        ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌	
 █ EMACS' USAGE PROBLEMS:                                                     ▐▌
 █   BASIC EMACS KEY CODES                                                    ▐▌
 █   EMACS' BACKSPACE KEY IS BROKEN                                           ▐▌
 █   HOW TO SET A REGION / SET A MARK IN EMACS                                ▐▌
 █   HOW TO COPY PASTE WITHIN EMACS                                           ▐▌
 █   HOW TO COPY PASTE INTO EMACS FROM ANOTHER PROGRAM                        ▐▌
 █   CHANGE EMAC'S MINIBUFFER (COMMAND LINE WINDOW) COLOR                     ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ EMACS' AMUSEMENTS & GAMES ERRORS:                                          ▐▌
 █   FIX EMACS' TETRIS AND SNAKE SCORE ERROR                                  ▐▌
 █   FIX EMACS' FORTUNE ERROR                                                 ▐▌
 █   FIX EMACS' YOW RETURNING ONLY ONE LINE                                   ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ EMAC'S ARTIST-MODE & PICTURE-MODE                                          ▐▌
 █ ENABLE DRAGGING YOUR CURSOR IN EMAC- MOUSE MODE                            ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ BASIC EMACS KEY CODES:                                                     ▐▌
 █ ``````````````````````                                                     ▐▌
 █    _________________________________________________________________       ▐▌
 █   /\                                                                \      ▐▌
 █   \_|                    BASIC EMACS KEY CODES:                     |      ▐▌
 █     |                    ``````````````````````                     |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | EMACS KEY CODE MEANINGS:                                      |      ▐▌
 █     | C-* = Ctrl + * example:                                       |      ▐▌
 █     | C-c = Ctrl + c                                                |      ▐▌
 █     | C-f = Ctrl + f                                                |      ▐▌
 █     | C-SPC = Ctrl = space key                                      |      ▐▌
 █     | RET = Enter key                                               |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | Escape key is called meta key so                              |      ▐▌
 █     | M-x = Esc + x                                                 |      ▐▌
 █     | M-! = Esc + Shift + !                                         |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | Access top menu:                        F10 or M-` (Esc + `)  |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | Execute a shell command:                M-!                   |      ▐▌
 █     | For example:                            M-! ls                |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | EXIT EMACS & FILES:                                           |      ▐▌
 █     | Exit Emacs:                             C-z                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Exit Emacs:                             C-x C-c               |      ▐▌
 █     | Exit & save file with its current name: C-x C-s               |      ▐▌
 █     | Exit & save with specified name:        C-x C-w               |      ▐▌
 █     | Save all open files:                    C-x s                 |      ▐▌
 █     | To view a file while in Emacs:          C-x C-f               |      ▐▌
 █     | To insert contents of a file:           C-x i                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Replace file with another:              C-x C-v               |      ▐▌
 █     | Abort:                                  C-g                   |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | CUT COPY PASTE WITHIN EMACS (not from another program):       |      ▐▌
 █     | Cut, copy to clipboard:                                       |      ▐▌
 █     | Move cursor to beginning of text you                          |      ▐▌
 █     | want to kill (cut), set a mark:         C-SPACE (Ctrl+Space)  |      ▐▌
 █     | Move cursor to end of text that you                           |      ▐▌
 █     | want to cut then:                       C-w                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Paste:                                  C-y (Ctrl+y = yank)   |      ▐▌
 █     | Copy to clipboard:                      M-w (Esc+w)           |      ▐▌
 █     | View 'killed' (cut):                    Middle mouse button   |      ▐▌
 █     |                                         or C-h v kill-ring    |      ▐▌
 █     | To select from kill ring:               ALT-y                 |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | NAVIGATING WITHINT A FILE:                                    |      ▐▌
 █     | Move back to previous paragraph:        M-[                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Move forward to next paragraph:         M-]                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Move back to beginning of sentence:     M-a                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Move forward to end of sentence:        M-e                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Move to beginning:                      M-< (Esc+Shift+<)     |      ▐▌
 █     | Move to end:                            M->                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Move forward to next word:              M-f (Esc+f)           |      ▐▌
 █     | Move forward one character:             C-f                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Move back to previous word:             M-b                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Move back to previous character:        C-f                   |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | SEARCH:                                                       |      ▐▌
 █     | Search forward:                         C-s                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Search backward:                        C-r                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Regular expression:                     C-M-s                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Reverse regular expression:             C-M-r                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Exit search:                            RET                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Cancel current search:                  C-g                   |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | EDITING A FILE:                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | Kill (cut) up to end of a word:         M-d                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Kill character:                         C-c                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Kill forward to end of sentence:        M-k                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Kill back to beginning of sentence:     C-x Delete key        |      ▐▌
 █     | Undo:                                   C-/ & C-x u & C-_     |      ▐▌
 █     | Set a mark:                             C-SPC                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Mark paragraph:                         M-h                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Mark page:                              C-x C-p               |      ▐▌
 █     | Mark entire buffer:                     C-x h                 |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | SPELL CHECK:                                                  |      ▐▌
 █     | Check spelling current word:            M-$ (Esc + Shift = $) |      ▐▌
 █     |                                         select word by number |      ▐▌
 █     | Check spelling in region:               M-x ispell-region     |      ▐▌
 █     | Check spelling of current buffer:       M-x ispell-buffer     |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | CONVERT CASE:                                                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Word to lower case:                     M-l                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Word to upper case:                     M-u                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Capitalize word:                        M-c                   |      ▐▌
 █     | Convert 'region' to lower case:         C-x C-l               |      ▐▌
 █     | Convert 'region' to upper case:         C-x C-u               |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | BUFFERS:                                                      |      ▐▌
 █     | Create a new buffer:                    C-x b [name]          |      ▐▌
 █     | Switch to a buffer:                     C-x 4 [name] b        |      ▐▌
 █     | Select previous buffer:                 C-x [left arrow key]  |      ▐▌
 █     | Select next buffer:                     C-x [right arrow key] |      ▐▌
 █     | Kill buffer:                            C-x k                 |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     | MULTIPLE WINDOWS:                                             |      ▐▌
 █     | Delete current window:                  C-x 0                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Delete other windows:                   C-x 1                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Split window into two vertically:       C-x 2                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Split window into two horizontally      C-x 3                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Switch to other window:                 C-x o                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Window shorter:                         C-x ^                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Window taller:                          C-x -                 |      ▐▌
 █     | Window wider:                           C-x "                 |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                               |      ▐▌
 █     |                                                   mewbies.com |      ▐▌
 █     |   ____________________________________________________________|_     ▐▌
 █      \_/______________________________________________________________/    ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ HERE you can find a mirror of Stephen Gildea's 'GNU Emacs Reference Card'  ▐▌
 █ card that contains even more handy key codes.                              ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ EMACS' BACKSPACE KEY IS BROKEN:                                            ▐▌
 █ ```````````````````````````````                                            ▐▌
 █ I'm sure there is some magic key combination to do a BASIC thing like      ▐▌
 █ backspace (C-h) or even the delete key but why...I just want to use my     ▐▌
 █ flipping backspace key. Thankfully a little google searching did the magic ▐▌
 █ (without even using a secret key combo), found HERE as well as many easy   ▐▌
 █ Emacs usage articles. Do this:                                             ▐▌
 █ cd ~                                                                       ▐▌
 █ pico .emacs                                                                ▐▌
 █ Add these lines at the end of the file (if that file doesn't exist doing   ▐▌
 █ this will create it):                                                      ▐▌
;; Working backspace key
(define-key global-map "\C-h" 'backward-delete-char)
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ You then might want to add for help file:                                  ▐▌
(define-key global-map "\C-x?" 'help-command)
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ Help will now be: C-x?                                                     ▐▌
 █ Restart your Emacs with a working backspace key :)).                       ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ HOW TO SET A REGION / SET A MARK IN EMACS:                                 ▐▌
 █ ``````````````````````````````````````````                                 ▐▌
 █ This is something like highlight but it is telling Emacs to operate some   ▐▌
 █ command you are going to give onto the selected region:                    ▐▌
 █ Move your cursor to area you want to select                                ▐▌
 █ press C-SPC (Ctrl + space aka C-@; Ctrl+Shift+@)                           ▐▌
 █ You'll see in the mini-buffer it states Mark Activated.                    ▐▌
 █ (Do it again will deactivate it.)                                          ▐▌
 █ Then move cursor to the end of the string that you want in the 'region'.   ▐▌
 █ Run your command, like M-x morse                                           ▐▌
 █ btw Ctrl+space in pico/nano moves the cursor to next word.                 ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ HOW TO COPY PASTE WITHIN EMACS:                                            ▐▌
 █ ```````````````````````````````                                            ▐▌
 █ To 'Yank' - Copy Cut Paste Within Emacs (not paste from another window):   ▐▌
 █ Cut, copy to clipboard:                                                    ▐▌
 █ Move cursor to beginning of text you want to cut (kill), set a mark:       ▐▌
 █ C-space (Ctrl+Space)                                                       ▐▌
 █ Move cursor to end of text that you want to cut then:                      ▐▌
 █ C-w (Ctrl+w)                                                               ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ Paste from clipboard (from a copy within Emacs only):                      ▐▌
 █ C-y (Ctrl+y = yank)                                                        ▐▌
 █ Copy to clipboard:                                                         ▐▌
 █ M-w (Esc+w)                                                                ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ To view what has been 'killed' (cut):                                      ▐▌
 █ Middle mouse button click or C-h v kill-ring                               ▐▌
 █ To select from kill ring: Alt-y                                            ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ HOW TO COPY PASTE INTO EMACS FROM ANOTHER PROGRAM:                         ▐▌
 █ ``````````````````````````````````````````````````                         ▐▌
 █ Bleepty bleep - hard to believe a BASIC function in a text editor doesn't  ▐▌
 █ work no matter how many clipboards (3) there are. I have not managed to    ▐▌
 █ have this working yet, others have managed to by using xsel with           ▐▌
 █ copypaste.el, Debian package info HERE, read HERE how to. Read HERE also   ▐▌
 █ for xsel: Can't open display: (null).                                      ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ My Notes:                                                                  ▐▌
 █ install xsel / done                                                        ▐▌
 █ xauth / already have                                                       ▐▌
 █ put copy.el in ~ / done                                                    ▐▌
 █ add to .emacs (load "~/copypaste.el") / done                               ▐▌
 █ add to ~/.ssh/config : / done                                              ▐▌
 █ Host *                                                                     ▐▌
 █     ForwardX11 yes                                                         ▐▌
 █     ForwardX11Trusted yes                                                  ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ ssh -Y                                                                     ▐▌
 █ ssh -X                                                                     ▐▌
 █ Test: xsel -o                                                              ▐▌
 █ xsel: Can't open display: (null).                                          ▐▌
 █ : Success                                                                  ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ CHANGE EMAC'S MINIBUFFER (COMMAND LINE WINDOW) COLOR:                      ▐▌
 █ `````````````````````````````````````````````````````                      ▐▌
 █ The mini-buffer is the bottom strip of the window where you enter your     ▐▌
 █ text. My default mini-buffer color was dark blue against black - basically ▐▌
 █ I couldn't see that there was anything going on down there; where M-x is.  ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
          emacs
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ cd ~                                                                       ▐▌
 █ pico .emacs                                                                ▐▌
 █ Add these lines at the end of the file (if that file doesn't exist doing   ▐▌
 █ this will create it) changing the color to the one you want from the list  ▐▌
 █ below:                                                                     ▐▌
;; Custom minibuffer style
(set-face-foreground 'minibuffer-prompt "green")
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ Colors to select from, (click HERE to view the exact color).               ▐▌
 █ COLOR:     If BOLD is enabled the color will be (brighter):                ▐▌
 █ black      = dark gray                                                     ▐▌
 █ red        = light red                                                     ▐▌
 █ green      = light green                                                   ▐▌
 █ yellow     = light yellow                                                  ▐▌
 █ blue       = light blue                                                    ▐▌
 █ magenta    = light magenta                                                 ▐▌
 █ cyan       = light cyan                                                    ▐▌
 █ gray       = white                                                         ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ To enable bold, which make colors lighter/brighter add this line also:     ▐▌
 █ (set-face-attribute 'minibuffer-prompt nil :weight 'bold)                  ▐▌
 █ You can even set the font, change default to the one wanted:               ▐▌
 █ (set-face-font 'minibuffer-prompt (face-font 'default))                    ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ To change emac's color theme view HERE.                                    ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ FIX EMACS' TETRIS AND SNAKE SCORE ERROR:                                   ▐▌
 █ ````````````````````````````````````````                                   ▐▌
 █ If you received this error while playing tetris or snake:                  ▐▌
 █ Failed to access scores file: No such file or directory                    ▐▌
 █ To keep track of the scores we need to create the file '.emacs' in our     ▐▌
 █ home directory:                                                            ▐▌
 █ cd ~                                                                       ▐▌
 █ pico .emacs                                                                ▐▌
 █ Add these lines at the end of the file (if that file doesn't exist doing   ▐▌
 █ this will create it):                                                      ▐▌

;; Game Scores
(setq tetris-score-file
  "~/.emacs.d/tetris-scores")
(setq snake-score-file
    "~/.emacs.d/snake-scores")
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ Save it and exit by pressing Ctrl+x then type in y, hit enter key.         ▐▌
 █ Test it by running tetris or snake again as above.                         ▐▌
 █ Now it should state: Wrote /home/mewbies/.emacs.d/                         ▐▌
 █ If you would like to view your tetris scores:                              ▐▌
 █ cat ~/.emacs.d/tetris-scores                                               ▐▌
 █ The scores are on the first left column.                                   ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ FIX EMACS' FORTUNE ERROR:                                                  ▐▌
 █ `````````````````````````                                                  ▐▌
 █ If you run M-x fortune and receive the error:                              ▐▌
 █ Can't compile fortune file /home/user/docs/ascii/misc/fortunes/usenet      ▐▌
 █ We need to tell .emacs where to look for it. You can either create your    ▐▌
 █ own or install Fortune (in this tutorial) and then select a fortune file   ▐▌
 █ to read from:                                                              ▐▌
 █ cd ~                                                                       ▐▌
 █ pico .emacs                                                                ▐▌
 █ Add these lines at the end of the file (if that file doesn't exist doing   ▐▌
 █ this will create it):                                                      ▐▌

;; Fortune path
(require 'fortune)
(setq fortune-dir "/usr/share/games/fortunes"
      fortune-file "/usr/share/games/fortunes/fortunes")
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ FIX EMACS' YOW RETURNING ONLY ONE LINE:                                    ▐▌
 █ ```````````````````````````````````````                                    ▐▌
 █ M-x yow returns this one line only :                                       ▐▌
 █ Yow!  Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED!                ▐▌
 █ This isn't an error. Since v22.1 all lines were removed due to copyright   ▐▌
 █ issues.                                                                    ▐▌
 █ So doesn't that just leave you a little bit curious what the other lines   ▐▌
 █ were? It does me :) So I downloaded v21.4                                  ▐▌
 █ (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-21.4a.tar.gz), extracted the yow.lines  ▐▌
 █ file and put HERE:                                                         ▐▌
 █ cd ~                                                                       ▐▌
 █ wget http://mewbies.com/geek_fun_files/emacs/yow.lines                     ▐▌
 █ su                                                                         ▐▌
 █ mv /usr/share/emacs/23.2/etc/yow.lines /usr/share/emacs/23.2/etc/yow.lines_backupmv yow.lines /usr/share/emacs/23.2/etc/yow.lines                           ▐▌
 █ exit                                                                       ▐▌
 █ Now you can try that again:                                                ▐▌
 █ emacs                                                                      ▐▌
 █ M-x yow                                                                    ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ EMAC'S ARTIST-MODE & PICTURE-MODE:                                         ▐▌
 █ ``````````````````````````````````                                         ▐▌
 █ Artist-mode: create poly-line, ellipse, rectangle and even use a spray-can.▐▌
 █ If you want to draw a diagram around some text make sure it has the space  ▐▌
 █ on the side.                                                               ▐▌
 █ Open a text file in Emacs or start from scratch:                           ▐▌
 █ emacs test.txt                                                             ▐▌
 █ M-x artist-mode                                                            ▐▌
 █ To select a tool, for example poly-line:                                   ▐▌
 █ C-c C-a p                                                                  ▐▌
 █ Or hold middle mouse button down for the menu                              ▐▌
 █ Or M-x artist-mode TAB key                                                 ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ You can drag your cursor and release to use the tools as well IF your      ▐▌
 █ mouse-mode is enabled.                                                     ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ If during using one of the modes you receive the error:                    ▐▌
 █ "Can not switch to a different shape while drawing"                        ▐▌
 █ Press your enter key then try again -                                      ▐▌
 █ If the the blue strip that goes across the window has * in its tool path   ▐▌
 █ it won't work, for example:                                                ▐▌
 █ F1 filename All L40 (Picture:left Artist/vaporize-1/*)                     ▐▌
 █                                                     ^                      ▐▌
 █ To remove tabs: M-x untabify                                               ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ M-x artist-mode-off or C-c C-c to return to normal editing                 ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ M-x picture-mode lets you type in a selected continuous direction -        ▐▌
 █ up-north, down-south, left-west, etc... View my chart below for a visual   ▐▌
 █ of which keys to use to select the direction.                              ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ For example to type in the direction of North-East - C-c ' (Ctrl+c then '):▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █             +-----------------------------------------------+              ▐▌
 █             |    Emacs M-x picture-mode Typing Direction    |              ▐▌
 █             |          C-c (Ctrl+c) Then Key Shown          |              ▐▌
 █             |                                               |              ▐▌
 █             |                       N                       |              ▐▌
 █             |                       up                      |              ▐▌
 █             |            NW `      /|\        NE '          |              ▐▌
 █             |               \       |       /               |              ▐▌
 █             |                 \     |     /                 |              ▐▌
 █             |                   \   |   /                   |              ▐▌
 █             |                     \ | /                     |              ▐▌
 █             |        W<- - - - - - -o- - - - - - ->E        |              ▐▌
 █             |                     / | \                     |              ▐▌
 █             |                   /   |   \                   |              ▐▌
 █             |                 /     |     \                 |              ▐▌
 █             |               /       |       \               |              ▐▌
 █             |            SW /      \|/        SE \          |              ▐▌
 █             |                     down                      |              ▐▌
 █             |                       S                       |              ▐▌
 █             |                                               |              ▐▌
 █             |  ___________________________________________  |              ▐▌
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 █ ENABLE DRAGGING YOUR CURSOR IN EMAC- MOUSE MODE:                           ▐▌
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 █ This is very useful when in artist-mode - ability to drag your cursor,     ▐▌
 █ release then it creates the shape determined by your tool selection. To do ▐▌
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 █ M-x xterm-mouse-mode                                                       ▐▌
 █ Repeating the command turns the mode off                                   ▐▌
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 █ To make this setting permanent:                                            ▐▌
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 █ pico .emacs                                                                ▐▌
 █ Add these lines at the end of the file (if that file doesn't exist doing   ▐▌
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;; mouse-mode on
(xterm-mouse-mode 1)
xterm-mouse-mode
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