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author | Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> |
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date | Tue, 23 May 2000 11:12:04 +0000 |
parents | ac7e9e5e2ccb |
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--- a/man/entering.texi Tue May 23 11:08:35 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/entering.texi Tue May 23 11:12:04 2000 +0000 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ @cindex entering Emacs @cindex starting Emacs - The usual way to invoke Emacs is with the shell command @samp{emacs}. + The usual way to invoke Emacs is with the shell command @command{emacs}. Emacs clears the screen and then displays an initial help message and copyright notice. Some operating systems discard all type-ahead when Emacs starts up; they give Emacs no way to prevent this. Therefore, it @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ first editing command. If you run Emacs from a shell window under the X Window System, run it -in the background with @samp{emacs&}. This way, Emacs does not tie up +in the background with @command{emacs&}. This way, Emacs does not tie up the shell window, so you can use that to run other shell commands while Emacs operates its own X windows. You can begin typing Emacs commands as soon as you direct your keyboard input to the Emacs frame. @@ -86,12 +86,12 @@ @findex suspend-emacs To suspend Emacs, type @kbd{C-z} (@code{suspend-emacs}). This takes you back to the shell from which you invoked Emacs. You can resume -Emacs with the shell command @samp{%emacs} in most common shells. +Emacs with the shell command @command{%emacs} in most common shells. On systems that do not support suspending programs, @kbd{C-z} starts an inferior shell that communicates directly with the terminal. Emacs waits until you exit the subshell. (The way to do that is -probably with @kbd{C-d} or @samp{exit}, but it depends on which shell +probably with @kbd{C-d} or @command{exit}, but it depends on which shell you use.) The only way on these systems to get back to the shell from which Emacs was run (to log out, for example) is to kill Emacs.