I would like to set the following keyboard shortcuts:
C-cC-xC-vM-gNow I realize that to do this I merely need the command for each of these, and add lines of the form:
(global-set-key (kbd "shortcut") 'command) to my ~/.emacs file. The problem is that Googling emacs commands hasn't revealed the emacs commands for each of these. So all I need is the commands for each of these.
kill-ring-save for C-ckill-region for C-xyank for C-vgdb for M-gYou should also look into enabling cua-mode, which ships with Emacs by default and allows usage of common keyboard shortcuts as expected with minimal setup. You can also use C-h k to see what a keybinding does and C-h f to see what a particular function does and what it's bound to currently.
kill-ring-save to C-c but when I press C-c in Emacs it doesn't copy highlighted text. I only tried using this .emacs snippet because Cua mode doesn't seem to do this for me. C-c not working for copying. This happened both with enabling cua-mode and with running (global-set-key (kbd "C-c") 'kill-ring-save). I suspect that this is happening b/c there are other keybindings to which C-c is already bound to, but as a prefix. You might want to try unbinding all other bindings to C-c and then see if it works correctly for copying regions.