How To Install elpa-expand-region on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-expand-region
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is elpa-expand-region
elpa-expand-region is:
Expand region increases the selected region by semantic units. Just keep pressing the ‘C-=’ key until it selects what you want. The notion of “semantic” is language-sensitive.
Example: editing
(setq alphabet-start “abc def”)
With the cursor at the c
, it starts by marking the entire word
abc
, then expand to the contents of the quotes abc def
, then to
the entire quote "abc def"
, then to the contents of the sexp setq alphabet-start "abc def"
and finally to the entire sexp.
There are three methods to install elpa-expand-region
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install elpa-expand-region Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-expand-region
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-expand-region
Install elpa-expand-region Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-expand-region
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-expand-region
Install elpa-expand-region Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-expand-region
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-expand-region
How To Uninstall elpa-expand-region on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the elpa-expand-region
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-expand-region
Uninstall elpa-expand-region And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-expand-region
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-expand-region
Remove elpa-expand-region Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-expand-region
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-expand-region
Remove elpa-expand-region configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-expand-region
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-expand-region
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-expand-region
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.