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comparison etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL @ 92756:77dae3f8271b
Remove discussion of flow control.
| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
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| date | Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:40:42 +0000 |
| parents | 107ccd98fa12 |
| children | e666d114df11 |
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| 536 You should save fairly often, so that you will not lose very much | 536 You should save fairly often, so that you will not lose very much |
| 537 work if the system should crash. | 537 work if the system should crash. |
| 538 | 538 |
| 539 >> Type C-x C-s, saving your copy of the tutorial. | 539 >> Type C-x C-s, saving your copy of the tutorial. |
| 540 This should show "Wrote ...TUTORIAL" at the bottom of the screen. | 540 This should show "Wrote ...TUTORIAL" at the bottom of the screen. |
| 541 | |
| 542 NOTE: On some systems, typing C-x C-s will freeze the screen and you | |
| 543 will see no further output from Emacs. This indicates that an | |
| 544 operating system "feature" called "flow control" is intercepting the | |
| 545 C-s and not letting it get through to Emacs. To unfreeze the screen, | |
| 546 type C-q. Then see the section "Spontaneous Entry to Incremental | |
| 547 Search" in the Emacs manual for advice on dealing with this "feature". | |
| 548 | 541 |
| 549 You can find an existing file, to view it or edit it. You can also | 542 You can find an existing file, to view it or edit it. You can also |
| 550 find a file which does not already exist. This is the way to create a | 543 find a file which does not already exist. This is the way to create a |
| 551 file with Emacs: find the file, which will start out empty, and then | 544 file with Emacs: find the file, which will start out empty, and then |
| 552 begin inserting the text for the file. When you ask to "save" the | 545 begin inserting the text for the file. When you ask to "save" the |
