Two things that I always reach for Emacs to accomplish are git and file management, via Magit and Dired(X) respectively. Here's a quick cheat sheet of the thing

Two things that I always reach for Emacs to accomplish are git and file management, via Magit and Dired(X) respectively. Here's a quick cheat sheet of the things I use Dired for: C-x C-j (jump to directory) Open the current directory in Dired (requires that you first (require 'dired-x)) from any buffer, even other directories, but usually from within files. C-x C-q (edit directory) Start editing the current directory as a plain-text buffer and commit changes with C-c C-c or discard all changes with C-c C-k. One thing you can do with this is quickly swap two filenames. Dired will give one of them a temp name which is super convenient. Combined with multiple-cursors package, this also lets you mass rename files in ways that would be much harder in terminal. d (delete) Mark items in directory for deletion, (x) to commit. m (mark) Mark items in a directory for: R - rename (or move) C - copy For a more thorough list, open a directory and type C-h m