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diff etc/TUTORIAL @ 12647:b94ff6c62c5d
Explain CTRL-META chars and how to use ESC for them.
author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Mon, 24 Jul 1995 05:21:31 +0000 |
parents | 5cb83d6bbce1 |
children | 18c79b8e0396 |
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--- a/etc/TUTORIAL Mon Jul 24 01:26:23 1995 +0000 +++ b/etc/TUTORIAL Mon Jul 24 05:21:31 1995 +0000 @@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ You are looking at the Emacs tutorial. Emacs commands generally involve the CONTROL key (sometimes labelled -CTRL or CTL) or the META key (sometimes labelled EDIT). Rather than +CTRL or CTL) or the META key (sometimes labelled EDIT or ALT). Rather than write out META or CONTROL each time we want you to prefix a character, we'll use the following abbreviations: C-<chr> means hold the CONTROL key while typing the character <chr> Thus, C-f would be: hold the CONTROL key and type f. - M-<chr> means hold the META or EDIT key down while typing <chr>. - If there is no META or EDIT key, type <ESC>, release it, + M-<chr> means hold the META or EDIT or ALT key down while typing <chr>. + If there is no META key or equivalent, type <ESC>, release it, then type the character <chr>. "<ESC>" stands for the key labelled "ESC". @@ -753,6 +753,16 @@ the cursor always in the window where you are editing, and edit there as you advance through the other window. +C-M-v is an example of a CONTROL-META character. If you have a real +META key, you can type C-M-v by holding down both CTRL and META while +typing v. + +It doesn't matter whether CTRL or META "comes first," because both of +these keys act by modifying the characters you type. But if you don't +have a real META key, and you use ESC instead, the order does matter: +you must type ESC followed by CTRL-v; CTRL-ESC v will not work. This +is because ESC is a character in its own right, not a modifier key. + >> Type C-x 1 (in the top window) to get rid of the bottom window. (If you had typed C-x 1 in the bottom window, that would get rid