Using Emacs

a brief introduction


Executive Summary: This document is designed to help you get started using emacs. It contains a listing of some of emacs' most commonly-used and helpful features, as well as a general overview of what emacs is all about.

What is Emacs?

Notation

Running emacs

Emacs Orientation

Cancelling and Exiting

The Pull-down menus

Reading and Writing Files

Moving Around

Marking a Region

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting

Undoing

Working with Buffers

Functions/Key Bindings

Searching/Replacing

On-line help

Conclusions


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