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(Basic Tutorial, Programming Tutorial): Removed caveats for Lucid Emacs.

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two-letter sequences where the first letter is called the @dfn{prefix}
key.  If you type a prefix key by accident, you can press @kbd{C-g}
to cancel it.  (In fact, you can press @kbd{C-g} to cancel almost
anything in Emacs.)  To get help on a prefix key, press that key
followed by @kbd{?}.  Some prefixes have several lines of help,
so you need to press @kbd{?} repeatedly to see them all.  This may
not work under Lucid Emacs, but you can also type @kbd{h h} to
see all the help at once.

Try pressing @kbd{t ?} now.  You will see a line of the form,

@smallexample
trail/time: Display; Fwd, Back; Next, Prev, Here, [, ]; Yank:  [MORE]  t-

language.  If you know Lisp, you can program the Calculator to do
anything you like.  Rewrite rules also work as a powerful programming
system.  But Lisp and rewrite rules take a while to master, and often
all you want to do is define a new function or repeat a command a few
times.  Calc has features that allow you to do these things easily.

(Note that the programming commands relating to user-defined keys
are not yet supported under Lucid Emacs 19.)

One very limited form of programming is defining your own functions.
Calc's @kbd{Z F} command allows you to define a function name and
key sequence to correspond to any formula.  Programming commands use
the shift-@kbd{Z} prefix; the user commands they create use the lower

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two-letter sequences where the first letter is called the @dfn{prefix}
key.  If you type a prefix key by accident, you can press @kbd{C-g}
to cancel it.  (In fact, you can press @kbd{C-g} to cancel almost
anything in Emacs.)  To get help on a prefix key, press that key
followed by @kbd{?}.  Some prefixes have several lines of help,
so you need to press @kbd{?} repeatedly to see them all.  
You can also type @kbd{h h} to see all the help at once.

Try pressing @kbd{t ?} now.  You will see a line of the form,

@smallexample
trail/time: Display; Fwd, Back; Next, Prev, Here, [, ]; Yank:  [MORE]  t-

language.  If you know Lisp, you can program the Calculator to do
anything you like.  Rewrite rules also work as a powerful programming
system.  But Lisp and rewrite rules take a while to master, and often
all you want to do is define a new function or repeat a command a few
times.  Calc has features that allow you to do these things easily.

One very limited form of programming is defining your own functions.
Calc's @kbd{Z F} command allows you to define a function name and
key sequence to correspond to any formula.  Programming commands use
the shift-@kbd{Z} prefix; the user commands they create use the lower