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25829 | 1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
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2 @c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, |
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3 @c 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
25829 | 4 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
5 @node Entering Emacs, Exiting, Text Characters, Top | |
6 @chapter Entering and Exiting Emacs | |
7 @cindex entering Emacs | |
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8 @cindex starting Emacs |
25829 | 9 |
68458 | 10 The usual way to invoke Emacs is with the shell command |
70359 | 11 @command{emacs}. Emacs clears the screen, then displays an initial |
12 help message and copyright notice. Some operating systems discard | |
13 your type-ahead when Emacs starts up; they give Emacs no way to | |
14 prevent this. On those systems, wait for Emacs to clear the screen | |
15 before you start typing. | |
25829 | 16 |
70359 | 17 From a shell window under the X Window System, run Emacs in the |
18 background with @command{emacs&}. This way, Emacs won't tie up the | |
19 shell window, so you can use it to run other shell commands while | |
20 Emacs is running. You can type Emacs commands as soon as you direct | |
21 your keyboard input to an Emacs frame. | |
25829 | 22 |
23 @vindex initial-major-mode | |
38954 | 24 When Emacs starts up, it creates a buffer named @samp{*scratch*}. |
68458 | 25 That's the buffer you start out in. The @samp{*scratch*} buffer uses |
26 Lisp Interaction mode; you can use it to type Lisp expressions and | |
70359 | 27 evaluate them. You can also ignore that capability and just write notes |
28 there. You can specify a different major mode for this buffer by | |
68458 | 29 setting the variable @code{initial-major-mode} in your init file. |
70359 | 30 @xref{Init File}. |
25829 | 31 |
32 It is possible to specify files to be visited, Lisp files to be | |
70359 | 33 loaded, and functions to be called through Emacs command-line |
34 arguments. @xref{Emacs Invocation}. The feature exists mainly for | |
35 compatibility with other editors, and for scripts. | |
25829 | 36 |
70359 | 37 Many editors are designed to edit one file. When done with that |
38 file, you exit the editor. The next time you want to edit a file, you | |
39 must start the editor again. Working this way, it is convenient to | |
40 use a command-line argument to say which file to edit. | |
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42 However, killing Emacs after editing one each and starting it afresh |
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43 for the next file is both unnecessary and harmful, since it denies you |
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44 the full power of Emacs. Emacs can visit more than one file in a |
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45 single editing session, and that is the right way to use it. Exiting |
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46 the Emacs session loses valuable accumulated context, such as the kill |
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47 ring, registers, undo history, and mark ring. These features are |
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48 useful for operating on multiple files, or even continuing to edit one |
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49 file. If you kill Emacs after each file, you don't take advantage of |
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50 them. |
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52 The recommended way to use GNU Emacs is to start it only once, just | |
53 after you log in, and do all your editing in the same Emacs session. | |
70359 | 54 Each time you edit a file, you visit it with the existing Emacs, which |
55 eventually has many files in it ready for editing. Usually you do not | |
56 kill Emacs until you are about to log out. @xref{Files}, for more | |
57 information on visiting more than one file. | |
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70359 | 59 To edit a file from another program while Emacs is running, you can |
60 use the @command{emacsclient} helper program to open a file in the | |
61 already running Emacs. @xref{Emacs Server}. | |
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25829 | 67 @node Exiting, Basic, Entering Emacs, Top |
68 @section Exiting Emacs | |
69 @cindex exiting | |
70 @cindex killing Emacs | |
71 @cindex suspending | |
72 @cindex leaving Emacs | |
73 @cindex quitting Emacs | |
74 | |
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75 There are two commands for exiting Emacs, and three kinds of |
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76 exiting: @dfn{iconifying} Emacs, @dfn{suspending} Emacs, and |
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77 @dfn{killing} Emacs. |
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79 @dfn{Iconifying} means replacing the Emacs frame with a small box or |
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80 ``icon'' on the screen. This is the usual way to exit Emacs when |
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81 you're using a graphical display---if you bother to ``exit'' at all. |
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82 (Just switching to another application is usually sufficient.) |
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84 @dfn{Suspending} means stopping Emacs temporarily and returning | |
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85 control to its parent process (usually a shell), allowing you to |
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86 resume editing later in the same Emacs job. This is the usual way to |
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87 exit Emacs when running it on a text terminal. |
25829 | 88 |
89 @dfn{Killing} Emacs means destroying the Emacs job. You can run Emacs | |
90 again later, but you will get a fresh Emacs; there is no way to resume | |
91 the same editing session after it has been killed. | |
92 | |
93 @table @kbd | |
94 @item C-z | |
95 Suspend Emacs (@code{suspend-emacs}) or iconify a frame | |
96 (@code{iconify-or-deiconify-frame}). | |
97 @item C-x C-c | |
98 Kill Emacs (@code{save-buffers-kill-emacs}). | |
99 @end table | |
100 | |
101 @kindex C-z | |
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102 @findex iconify-or-deiconify-frame |
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103 On graphical displays, @kbd{C-z} runs the command |
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104 @code{iconify-or-deiconify-frame}, which temporarily iconifies (or |
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105 ``minimizes'') the selected Emacs frame (@pxref{Frames}). You can |
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106 then use the window manager to select some other application. (You |
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107 could select another application without iconifying Emacs first, but |
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108 getting the Emacs frame out of the way can make it more convenient to |
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109 find the other application.) |
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112 On a text terminal, @kbd{C-z} runs the command @code{suspend-emacs}. |
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113 Suspending Emacs takes you back to the shell from which you invoked |
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114 Emacs. You can resume Emacs with the shell command @command{%emacs} |
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115 in most common shells. On systems that don't support suspending |
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116 programs, @kbd{C-z} starts an inferior shell that communicates |
70359 | 117 directly with the terminal, and Emacs waits until you exit the |
118 subshell. (The way to do that is probably with @kbd{C-d} or | |
119 @command{exit}, but it depends on which shell you use.) On these | |
120 systems, you can only get back to the shell from which Emacs was run | |
121 (to log out, for example) when you kill Emacs. | |
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124 Suspending can fail if you run Emacs under a shell that doesn't |
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125 support suspendion of its subjobs, even if the system itself does |
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126 support it. In such a case, you can set the variable |
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127 @code{cannot-suspend} to a non-@code{nil} value to force @kbd{C-z} to |
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128 start an inferior shell. |
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130 @kindex C-x C-c | |
131 @findex save-buffers-kill-emacs | |
38954 | 132 To exit and kill Emacs, type @kbd{C-x C-c} |
70359 | 133 (@code{save-buffers-kill-emacs}). A two-character key is used to make |
134 it harder to type by accident. This command first offers to save any | |
135 modified file-visiting buffers. If you do not save them all, it asks | |
136 for confirmation with @kbd{yes} before killing Emacs, since any | |
137 changes not saved now will be lost forever. Also, if any subprocesses are | |
138 still running, @kbd{C-x C-c} asks for confirmation about them, since | |
139 killing Emacs will also kill the subprocesses. | |
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141 @vindex confirm-kill-emacs |
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142 If the value of the variable @code{confirm-kill-emacs} is |
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143 non-@code{nil}, @kbd{C-x C-c} assumes that its value is a predicate |
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144 function, and calls that function. If the result is non-@code{nil}, the |
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145 session is killed, otherwise Emacs continues to run. One convenient |
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146 function to use as the value of @code{confirm-kill-emacs} is the |
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147 function @code{yes-or-no-p}. The default value of |
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148 @code{confirm-kill-emacs} is @code{nil}. |
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70359 | 150 You can't resume an Emacs session after killing it. Emacs can, |
151 however, record certain session information when you kill it, such as | |
152 which files you visited, so the next time you start Emacs it will try | |
153 to visit the same files. @xref{Saving Emacs Sessions}. | |
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155 The operating system usually listens for certain special characters | |
156 whose meaning is to kill or suspend the program you are running. | |
157 @b{This operating system feature is turned off while you are in Emacs.} | |
158 The meanings of @kbd{C-z} and @kbd{C-x C-c} as keys in Emacs were | |
159 inspired by the use of @kbd{C-z} and @kbd{C-c} on several operating | |
160 systems as the characters for stopping or killing a program, but that is | |
161 their only relationship with the operating system. You can customize | |
162 these keys to run any commands of your choice (@pxref{Keymaps}). | |
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165 @lowersections |
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52401 | 168 @ignore |
169 arch-tag: df798d8b-f253-4113-b585-f528f078a944 | |
170 @end ignore |