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1 Copyright (c) 1985 Free Software Foundation, Inc; See end for conditions.
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2 You are looking at the Emacs tutorial.
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4 Emacs commands generally involve the CONTROL key (sometimes labeled
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5 CTRL or CTL) or the META key (sometimes labeled EDIT or ALT). Rather than
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6 write that in full each time, we'll use the following abbreviations:
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8 C-<chr> means hold the CONTROL key while typing the character <chr>
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9 Thus, C-f would be: hold the CONTROL key and type f.
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10 M-<chr> means hold the META or EDIT or ALT key down while typing <chr>.
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11 If there is no META, EDIT or ALT key, instead press and release the
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12 ESC key and then type <chr>. We write <ESC> for the ESC key.
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14 Important note: to end the Emacs session, type C-x C-c. (Two characters.)
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15 The characters ">>" at the left margin indicate directions for you to
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16 try using a command. For instance:
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17 <<Blank lines inserted here by startup of help-with-tutorial>>
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18 >> Now type C-v (View next screen) to move to the next screen.
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19 (go ahead, do it by holding down the control key while typing v).
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20 From now on, you should do this again whenever you finish
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21 reading the screen.
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23 Note that there is an overlap of two lines when you move from screen
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24 to screen; this provides some continuity so you can continue reading
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25 the text.
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27 The first thing that you need to know is how to move around from place
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28 to place in the text. You already know how to move forward one screen,
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29 with C-v. To move backwards one screen, type M-v (hold down the META key
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30 and type v, or type <ESC>v if you do not have a META, EDIT, or ALT key).
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32 >> Try typing M-v and then C-v, a few times.
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35 * SUMMARY
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36 ---------
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38 The following commands are useful for viewing screenfuls:
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40 C-v Move forward one screenful
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41 M-v Move backward one screenful
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42 C-l Clear screen and redisplay all the text,
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43 moving the text around the cursor
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44 to the center of the screen.
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45 (That's control-L, not control-1.)
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47 >> Find the cursor, and note what text is near it.
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48 Then type C-l.
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49 Find the cursor again and notice that the same text
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50 is near the cursor now.
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53 * BASIC CURSOR CONTROL
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56 Moving from screenful to screenful is useful, but how do you
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57 move to a specific place within the text on the screen?
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59 There are several ways you can do this. The most basic way is to use
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60 the commands C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n. Each of these commands moves the
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61 cursor one row or column in a particular direction on the screen.
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62 Here is a table showing these four commands and shows the directions
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63 they move:
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65 Previous line, C-p
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68 Backward, C-b .... Current cursor position .... Forward, C-f
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71 Next line, C-n
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73 >> Move the cursor to the line in the middle of that diagram
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74 using C-n or C-p. Then type C-l to see the whole diagram
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75 centered in the screen.
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77 You'll probably find it easy to think of these by letter: P for
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78 previous, N for next, B for backward and F for forward. These are the
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79 basic cursor positioning commands, and you'll be using them ALL the
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80 time, so it would be of great benefit if you learn them now.
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82 >> Do a few C-n's to bring the cursor down to this line.
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84 >> Move into the line with C-f's and then up with C-p's.
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85 See what C-p does when the cursor is in the middle of the line.
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87 Each of text line ends with a Newline character, which serves to
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88 separate it from the following line. The last line in your file ought
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89 to have a Newline at the end (but Emacs does not require it to have
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90 one).
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92 >> Try to C-b at the beginning of a line. It should move to
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93 the end of the previous line. This is because it moves back
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94 across the Newline character.
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96 C-f can move across a Newline just like C-b.
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98 >> Do a few more C-b's, so you get a feel for where the cursor is.
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99 Then do C-f's to return to the end of the line.
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100 Then do one more C-f to move to the following line.
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102 When you move past the top or bottom of the screen, the text beyond
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103 the edge shifts onto the screen. This is called "scrolling". It
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104 enables Emacs to move the cursor to the specified place in the text
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105 without moving it off the screen.
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107 >> Try to move the cursor off the bottom of the screen with C-n, and
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108 see what happens.
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110 If moving by characters is too slow, you can move by words. M-f
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111 (Meta-f) moves forward a word and M-b moves back a word.
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113 >> Type a few M-f's and M-b's.
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115 When you are in the middle of a word, M-f moves to the end of the word.
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116 When you are in whitespace between words, M-f moves to the end of the
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117 following word. M-b works likewise in the opposite direction.
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119 >> Type M-f and M-b a few times, interspersed with C-f's and C-b's
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120 so that you can observe the action of M-f and M-b from various
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121 places inside and between words.
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123 Notice the parallel between C-f and C-b on the one hand, and M-f and
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124 M-b on the other hand. Very often Meta characters are used for
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125 operations related to the units defined by language (words, sentences,
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126 paragraphs), while Control characters operate on basic units that are
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127 independent of what you are editing (characters, lines, etc).
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129 This parallel applies between lines and sentences: C-a and C-e move to
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130 the beginning or end of a line, and M-a and M-e move to the beginning
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131 or end of a sentence.
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133 >> Try a couple of C-a's, and then a couple of C-e's.
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134 Try a couple of M-a's, and then a couple of M-e's.
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136 See how repeated C-a's do nothing, but repeated M-a's keep moving one
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137 more sentence. Although these are not quite analogous, each one seems
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138 natural.
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140 The location of the cursor in the text is also called "point". To
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142 the text.
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144 Here is a summary of simple cursor-moving operations, including the
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145 word and sentence moving commands:
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358 When you delete more than one character at a time, Emacs saves the
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361 place where it was killed, or at some other place in the text. You
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363 it. The command to yank is C-y.
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369 and spaces, do not save the deleted text.
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383 is, type C-y.
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409 If you M-y enough times, you come back to the starting point (the most
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440 but it is easier to type several times in a row. The disadvantage of
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441 C-_ is that on some keyboards it is not obvious how to type it. That
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442 is why we provide C-x u as well. On some terminals, you can type C-_
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443 by typing / while holding down CONTROL.
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445 A numeric argument to C-_ or C-x u acts as a repeat count.
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451 In order to make the text you edit permanent, you must put it in a
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453 away. In order to put your text in a file, you must "find" the file
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454 before you enter the text. (This is also called "visiting" the file.)
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456 Finding a file means that you see the contents of the file within
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457 Emacs. In many ways, it is as if you were editing the file itself.
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458 However, the changes you make using Emacs do not become permanent
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459 until you "save" the file. This is so you can avoid leaving a
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460 half-changed file on the system when you do not want to. Even when
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462 you later decide that your changes were a mistake.
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465 begins and ends with dashes, and starts with "--:-- TUTORIAL" or
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466 something like that. This part of the screen normally shows the name
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467 of the file that you are visiting. Right now, you are visiting a file
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468 called "TUTORIAL" which is your personal scratch copy of the Emacs
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469 tutorial. When you find a file with Emacs, that file's name will
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473 have to say what file name you want. We say the command "reads an
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474 argument from the terminal" (in this case, the argument is the name of
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475 the file). After you type the command
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479 Emacs asks you to type the file name. The file name you type appears
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480 on the bottom line of the screen. The bottom line is called the
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482 ordinary Emacs editing commands to edit the file name.
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484 While you are entering the file name (or any minibuffer input),
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485 you can cancel the command with C-g.
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491 When you have finished entering the file name, type <Return> to
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492 terminate it. Then C-x C-f command goes to work, and finds the file
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496 In a little while the file contents appear on the screen, and you can
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497 edit the contents. When you wish to make your changes permanent,
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498 type the command
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502 This copies the text within Emacs into the file. The first time you
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505 original file's name.
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512 This should print "Wrote ...TUTORIAL" at the bottom of the screen.
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514 NOTE: On some systems, typing C-x C-s will freeze the screen and you
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517 C-s and not letting it get through to Emacs. To unfreeze the screen,
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518 type C-q. Then see the section "Spontaneous Entry to Incremental
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519 Search" in the Emacs manual for advice on dealing with this "feature".
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521 You can find an existing file, to view it or edit it. You can also
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522 find a file which does not already exist. This is the way to create a
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524 begin inserting the text for the file. When you ask to "save" the
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525 file, Emacs will really create the file with the text that you have
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526 inserted. From then on, you can consider yourself to be editing an
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533 If you find a second file with C-x C-f, the first file remains
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535 C-x C-f. This way you can get quite a number of files inside Emacs.
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537 >> Create a file named "foo" by typing C-x C-f foo <Return>.
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538 Then insert some text, edit it, and save "foo" by typing C-x C-s.
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539 Finally, type C-x C-f TUTORIAL <Return>
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540 to come back to the tutorial.
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543 Finding a file makes a new buffer inside Emacs. To see a list of the
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544 buffers that currently exist in your Emacs job, type
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548 >> Try C-x C-b now.
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550 See how each buffer has a name, and it may also have a file name
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551 for the file whose contents it holds. Some buffers do not correspond
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553 not have any file. It is the buffer which contains the buffer
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557 >> Type C-x 1 to get rid of the buffer list.
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559 If you make changes to the text of one file, then find another file,
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563 but it also means that you need a convenient way to save the first
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564 file's buffer. It would be a nuisance to have to switch back to
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565 it with C-x C-f in order to save it with C-x C-s. So we have
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567 C-x s Save some buffers
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569 C-x s asks you about each buffer which contains changes that you have
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573 >> Insert a line of text, then type C-x s.
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574 It should ask you whether to save the buffer named TUTORIAL.
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575 Answer yes to the question by typing "y".
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577 * EXTENDING THE COMMAND SET
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580 There are many, many more Emacs commands than could possibly be put
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581 on all the control and meta characters. Emacs gets around this with
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582 the X (eXtend) command. This comes in two flavors:
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584 C-x Character eXtend. Followed by one character.
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585 M-x Named command eXtend. Followed by a long name.
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588 commands you have already learned about. You have already seen two of
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589 them: the file commands C-x C-f to Find and C-x C-s to Save. Another
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590 example is the command to end the Emacs session--this is the command
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591 C-x C-c. (Do not worry about losing changes you have made; C-x C-c
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592 offers to save each changed file before it kills the Emacs.)
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594 C-z is the command to exit Emacs *temporarily*--so that you can go
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595 back to the same Emacs session afterward.
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597 On systems which allow it, C-z "suspends" Emacs; that is, it returns
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598 to the shell but does not destroy the Emacs. In the most common
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599 shells, you can resume Emacs with the `fg' command or with `%emacs'.
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601 On systems which do not implement suspending, C-z creates a subshell
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602 running under Emacs to give you the chance to run other programs and
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603 return to Emacs afterward; it does not truly "exit" from Emacs. In
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604 this case, the shell command `exit' is the usual way to get back to
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605 Emacs from the subshell.
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607 The time to use C-x C-c is when you are about to log out. It's also
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608 the right thing to use to exit an Emacs invoked under mail handling
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609 programs and other miscellaneous utilities, since they may not know
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610 how to cope with suspension of Emacs. In ordinary circumstances,
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611 though, if you are not about to log out, it is better to suspend Emacs
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612 with C-z instead of exiting Emacs.
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614 There are many C-x commands. Here is a list of the ones you have learned:
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616 C-x C-f Find file.
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617 C-x C-s Save file.
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618 C-x C-b List buffers.
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619 C-x C-c Quit Emacs.
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620 C-x u Undo.
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622 Named eXtended commands are commands which are used even less
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623 frequently, or commands which are used only in certain modes. An
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624 example is the command replace-string, which globally replaces one
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625 string with another. When you type M-x, Emacs prompts you at the
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626 bottom of the screen with M-x and you should type the name of the
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627 command; in this case, "replace-string". Just type "repl s<TAB>" and
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628 Emacs will complete the name. End the command name with <Return>.
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630 The replace-string command requires two arguments--the string to be
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631 replaced, and the string to replace it with. You must end each
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632 argument with <Return>.
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634 >> Move the cursor to the blank line two lines below this one.
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638 the word c-h-a-n-g-e-d with "altered" wherever it occurred,
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639 after the initial position of the cursor.
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645 When you have made changes in a file, but you have not saved them yet,
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646 they could be lost if your computer crashes. To protect you from
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647 this, Emacs periodically writes an "auto save" file for each file that
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648 you are editing. The auto save file name has a # at the beginning and
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649 the end; for example, if your file is named "hello.c", its auto save
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650 file's name is "#hello.c#". When you save the file in the normal way,
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651 Emacs deletes its auto save file.
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653 If the computer crashes, you can recover your auto-saved editing by
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654 finding the file normally (the file you were editing, not the auto
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655 save file) and then typing M-x recover file<Return>. When it asks for
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656 confirmation, type yes<Return> to go ahead and recover the auto-save
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660 * ECHO AREA
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663 If Emacs sees that you are typing commands slowly it shows them to you
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668 * MODE LINE
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671 The line immediately above the echo area it is called the "mode line".
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672 The mode line says something like this:
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676 This line gives useful information about the status of Emacs and
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677 the text you are editing.
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680 found. -NN%-- indicates your current position in the text; it means
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681 that NN percent of the text is above the top of the screen. If the
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682 top of the file is on the screen, it will say --Top-- instead of
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683 --00%--. If the bottom of the text is on the screen, it will say
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684 --Bot--. If you are looking at text so small that all of it fits on
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685 the screen, the mode line says --All--.
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687 The stars near the front mean that you have made changes to the text.
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688 Right after you visit or save a file, that part of the mode line shows
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689 no stars, just dashes.
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691 The part of the mode line inside the parentheses is to tell you what
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692 editing modes you are in. The default mode is Fundamental which is
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693 what you are using now. It is an example of a "major mode".
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695 Emacs has many different major modes. Some of them are meant for
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697 Text mode, etc. At any time one and only one major mode is active,
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698 and its name can always be found in the mode line just where
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699 "Fundamental" is now.
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701 Each major mode makes a few commands behave differently. For example,
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702 there are commands for creating comments in a program, and since each
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703 programming language has a different idea of what a comment should
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704 look like, each major mode has to insert comments differently. Each
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707 switch to Fundamental mode.
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711 >> Type M-x text mode<Return>.
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716 M-f and M-b treated apostrophes as word-separators.
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718 Major modes usually make subtle changes like that one: most commands
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720 differently.
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722 To view documentation on your current major mode, type C-h m.
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724 >> Use C-u C-v once or more to bring this line near the top of screen.
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725 >> Type C-h m, to see how Text mode differs from Fundamental mode.
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726 >> Type C-x 1 to remove the documentation from the screen.
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729 Minor modes are alternatives not to the major modes, just minor
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730 modifications of them. Each minor mode can be turned on or off by
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731 itself, independent of all other minor modes, and independent of your
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732 major mode. So you can use no minor modes, or one minor mode, or any
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733 combination of several minor modes.
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735 One minor mode which is very useful, especially for editing English
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736 text, is Auto Fill mode. When this mode is on, Emacs breaks the line
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737 in between words automatically whenever you insert text and make a
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738 line that is too wide.
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739
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740 You can turn Auto Fill mode on by doing M-x auto fill mode<Return>.
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741 When the mode is on, you can turn it off by doing M-x
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742 auto fill mode<Return>. If the mode is off, this command turns it on,
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743 and if the mode is on, this command turns it off. We say that the
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744 command "toggles the mode".
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746 >> Type M-x auto fill mode<Return> now. Then insert a line of "asdf "
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747 over again until you see it divide into two lines. You must put in
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748 spaces between them because Auto Fill breaks lines only at spaces.
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750 The margin is usually set at 70 characters, but you can change it
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751 with the C-x f command. You should give the margin setting you want
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752 as a numeric argument.
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754 >> Type C-x f with an argument of 20. (C-u 2 0 C-x f).
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755 Then type in some text and see Emacs fill lines of 20
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756 characters with it. Then set the margin back to 70 using
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757 C-x f again.
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759 If you makes changes in the middle of a paragraph, Auto Fill mode
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760 does not re-fill it for you.
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761 To re-fill the paragraph, type M-q (Meta-q) with the cursor inside
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762 that paragraph.
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764 >> Move the cursor into the previous paragraph and type M-q.
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766 * SEARCHING
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767 -----------
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769 Emacs can do searches for strings (these are groups of contiguous
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770 characters or words) either forward through the text or backward
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771 through it. Searching for a string is a cursor motion command;
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772 it moves the cursor to the next place where that string appears.
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774 The Emacs search command is different from the search commands
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775 of most editors, in that it is "incremental". This means that the
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776 search happens while you type in the string to search for.
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778 The command to initiate a search is C-s for forward search, and C-r
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779 for reverse search. BUT WAIT! Don't try them now.
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781 When you type C-s you'll notice that the string "I-search" appears as
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782 a prompt in the echo area. This tells you that Emacs is in what is
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783 called an incremental search waiting for you to type the thing that
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784 you want to search for. <Return> terminates a search.
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786 >> Now type C-s to start a search. SLOWLY, one letter at a time,
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787 type the word 'cursor', pausing after you type each
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788 character to notice what happens to the cursor.
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789 Now you have searched for "cursor", once.
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790 >> Type C-s again, to search for the next occurrence of "cursor".
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791 >> Now type <Delete> four times and see how the cursor moves.
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792 >> Type <Return> to terminate the search.
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794 Did you see what happened? Emacs, in an incremental search, tries to
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795 go to the occurrence of the string that you've typed out so far. To
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796 go to the next occurrence of 'cursor' just type C-s again. If no such
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797 occurrence exists Emacs beeps and tells you the search is currently
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798 "failing", C-g would also terminate the search.
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800 NOTE: On some systems, typing C-s will freeze the screen and you will
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801 see no further output from Emacs. This indicates that an operating
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802 system "feature" called "flow control" is intercepting the C-s and not
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803 letting it get through to Emacs. To unfreeze the screen, type C-q.
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804 Then see the section "Spontaneous Entry to Incremental Search" in the
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805 Emacs manual for advice on dealing with this "feature".
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806
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807 If you are in the middle of an incremental search and type <Delete>,
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810 instance, suppose you have typed "c", to search for the first
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811 occurrence of "c". Now if you type "u", the cursor will move
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813 the "u" from the search string, and the cursor moves back to
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814 the first occurrence of "c".
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815
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816 If you are in the middle of a search and type a control or meta
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817 character (with a few exceptions--characters that are special in
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818 a search, such as C-s and C-r), the search is terminated.
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821 string AFTER the current cursor position. If you want to search for
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822 something earlier in the text, type C-r instead. Everything that we
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823 have said about C-s also applies to C-r, except that the direction of
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824 the search is reversed.
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826
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827 * MULTIPLE WINDOWS
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828 ------------------
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829
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830 One of the nice features of Emacs is that you can display more than one
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831 window on the screen at the same time.
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832
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833 >> Move the cursor to this line and type C-u 0 C-l.
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834
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835 >> Now type C-x 2 which splits the screen into two windows.
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836 Both windows display this tutorial. The cursor stays in the top window.
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837
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838 >> Type C-M-v to scroll the bottom window.
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839 (If you do not have a real Meta key, type ESC C-v.)
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841 >> Type C-x o ("o" for "other") to move the cursor to the bottom window.
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842 >> Use C-v and M-v in the bottom window to scroll it.
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843 Keep reading these directions in the top window.
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844
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845 >> Type C-x o again to move the cursor back to the top window.
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846 The cursor in the top window is just where it was before.
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847
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848 You can keep using C-x o to switch between the windows. Each
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849 window has its own cursor position, but only one window actually
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850 shows the cursor. All the ordinary editing commands apply to the
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851 window that the cursor is in. We call this the "selected window".
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852
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853 The command C-M-v is very useful when you are editing text in one
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854 window and using the other window just for reference. You can keep
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855 the cursor always in the window where you are editing, and advance
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856 through the other window sequentially with C-M-v.
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857
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858 C-M-v is an example of a CONTROL-META character. If you have a real
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859 META key, you can type C-M-v by holding down both CONTROL and META while
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860 typing v. It does not matter whether CONTROL or META "comes first,"
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861 because both of these keys act by modifying the characters you type.
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862
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863 If you do not have a real META key, and you use ESC instead, the order
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864 does matter: you must type ESC followed by Control-v, because
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865 Control-ESC v will not work. This is because ESC is a character in
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866 its own right, not a modifier key.
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867
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868 >> Type C-x 1 (in the top window) to get rid of the bottom window.
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869
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870 (If you had typed C-x 1 in the bottom window, that would get rid
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871 of the top one. Think of this command as "Keep just one
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874 You do not have to display the same buffer in both windows. If you
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875 use C-x C-f to find a file in one window, the other window does not
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876 change. You can find a file in each window independently.
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877
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878 Here is another way to use two windows to display two different
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879 things:
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880
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881 >> Type C-x 4 C-f followed by the name of one of your files.
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882 End with <Return>. See the specified file appear in the bottom
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883 window. The cursor goes there, too.
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884
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885 >> Type C-x o to go back to the top window, and C-x 1 to delete
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886 the bottom window.
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888
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889 * RECURSIVE EDITING LEVELS
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892 Sometimes you will get into what is called a "recursive editing
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894 surrounding the parentheses around the major mode name. For
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895 example, you might see [(Fundamental)] instead of (Fundamental).
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897 To get out of the recursive editing level, type ESC ESC ESC. That is
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898 an all-purpose "get out" command. You can also use it for eliminating
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899 extra windows, and getting out of the minibuffer.
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900
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901 >> Type M-x to get into a minibuffer; then type ESC ESC ESC to get out.
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903 You cannot use C-g to get out of a recursive editing level. This is
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904 because C-g is used for canceling commands and arguments WITHIN the
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905 recursive editing level.
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908 * GETTING MORE HELP
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909 -------------------
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911 In this tutorial we have tried to supply just enough information to
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912 get you started using Emacs. There is so much available in Emacs that
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913 it would be impossible to explain it all here. However, you may want
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914 to learn more about Emacs since it has many other useful features.
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915 Emacs provides commands for reading documentation about Emacs
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916 commands. These "help" commands all start with the character
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917 Control-h, which is called "the Help character".
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919 To use the Help features, type the C-h character, and then a
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920 character saying what kind of help you want. If you are REALLY lost,
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921 type C-h ? and Emacs will tell you what kinds of help it can give.
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922 If you have typed C-h and decide you do not want any help, just
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923 type C-g to cancel it.
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925 (Some sites change the meaning of the character C-h. They really
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926 should not do this as a blanket measure for all users, so you have
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927 grounds to complain to the system administrator. Meanwhile, if C-h
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928 does not display a message about help at the bottom of the screen, try
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929 typing the F1 key or M-x help <Return> instead.)
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931 The most basic HELP feature is C-h c. Type C-h, the character c, and
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932 a command character or sequence; then Emacs displays a very brief
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933 description of the command.
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934
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935 >> Type C-h c Control-p.
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936 The message should be something like
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938 C-p runs the command previous-line
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939
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940 This tells you the "name of the function". Function names are used
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941 mainly for customizing and extending Emacs. But since function names
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942 are chosen to indicate what the command does, they can serve also as
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943 very brief documentation--sufficient to remind you of commands you
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944 have already learned.
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945
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946 Multi-character commands such as C-x C-s and (if you have no META or
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947 EDIT or ALT key) <ESC>v are also allowed after C-h c.
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948
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949 To get more information about a command, use C-h k instead of C-h c.
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951 >> Type C-h k Control-p.
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953 This displays the documentation of the function, as well as its
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954 name, in an Emacs window. When you are finished reading the
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955 output, type C-x 1 to get rid of the help text. You do not have
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956 to do this right away. You can do some editing while referring
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957 to the help text, and then type C-x 1.
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959 Here are some other useful C-h options:
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961 C-h f Describe a function. You type in the name of the
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962 function.
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963
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964 >> Try typing C-h f previous-line<Return>.
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965 This prints all the information Emacs has about the
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966 function which implements the C-p command.
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968 C-h a Command Apropos. Type in a keyword and Emacs will list
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969 all the commands whose names contain that keyword.
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970 These commands can all be invoked with Meta-x.
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971 For some commands, Command Apropos will also list a one
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972 or two character sequence which runs the same command.
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974 >> Type C-h a file<Return>.
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975
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976 This displays in another window a list of all M-x commands with "file"
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977 in their names. You will see character-commands like C-x C-f listed
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978 beside the corresponding command names such as find-file.
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979
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980 >> Type C-M-v to scroll the help window. Do this a few times.
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981
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982 >> Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
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985 * CONCLUSION
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986 ------------
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988 Remember, to exit Emacs permanently use C-x C-c. To exit to a shell
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989 temporarily, so that you can come back to Emacs afterward, use C-z.
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991 This tutorial is meant to be understandable to all new users, so if
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992 you found something unclear, don't sit and blame yourself - complain!
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995 COPYING
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996 -------
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998 This tutorial descends from a long line of Emacs tutorials
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999 starting with the one written by Stuart Cracraft for the original Emacs.
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1001 This version of the tutorial, like GNU Emacs, is copyrighted, and
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1004 Copyright (c) 1985, 1996 Free Software Foundation
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1008 copyright notice and permission notice are preserved,
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1009 and that the distributor grants the recipient permission
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1010 for further redistribution as permitted by this notice.
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1014 under the above conditions, provided also that they
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1015 carry prominent notices stating who last altered them.
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1017 The conditions for copying Emacs itself are more complex, but in the
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1018 same spirit. Please read the file COPYING and then do give copies of
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1019 GNU Emacs to your friends. Help stamp out software obstructionism
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1020 ("ownership") by using, writing, and sharing free software!