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Emacs editing environment, Part 1: Learn the basics of Emacs

Get going with this famous open source editor

Michael Stutz, Author, Consultant
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Michael Stutz is author of The Linux Cookbook, which he also designed and typeset using only open source software. His research interests include digital publishing and the future of the book. He has used various UNIX operating systems for 20 years.

Summary:  Master the Emacs editor and delve into the depths of its most advanced editing commands that have made it famous. The open source Emacs editor (one of the powerhouses of UNIX® computing) is a large, complex application that does everything from editing text to functioning as a complete development environment. It's rich in features and is unlike any other program you're likely to have encountered, especially in the way you specify and input commands. This tutorial, the first in a series, gets you going by providing a concise, hands-on introduction to the most important Emacs editing concepts and features.

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Date:  20 Mar 2007
Level:  Introductory

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Congratulations! You've gone through the first tutorial in this series on learning to use Emacs. You've learned all the most important basics of the Emacs editing environment: how to open new buffers and save them to files; how to move through buffers, enter and edit text in a buffer, and mark and operate on regions of text; and even how to use the mouse for text operations.

Although this tutorial covered a lot of ground, you have a lot to learn. Further tutorials in this series take you through the complex editing features of Emacs and show you how to use them in your work.

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