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Living in Emacs

The basics of using Emacs

Brian Bilbrey (bilbrey@orbdesigns.com), System administrator, 自由职业者

Brian Bilbrey is a system administrator, Webmaster, product and PWB designer, author, and Linux advocate. His business card has been known to read NPS, standing for No Particular Specialty. Brian uses Linux in his daily work, and changes his window manager and favorite applications the way some people change clothing. New distributions are like bread and water -- fundamental -- and Brian is currently happily experimenting with Gentoo Linux. Contact Brian at bilbrey@orbdesigns.com, and find his daily blog on life with Linux and other adventures at OrbDesigns.com.

Summary: This tutorial is your guide to the basics of using Emacs, a popular modeless text editor with many powerful features. The tutorial covers fundamental concepts and common activities, and then builds on those foundations to quickly familiarize you with this excellent editor.

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Date: 02 Jul 2002
Level: Introductory
PDF: A4 and Letter (304 KB | 25 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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About this tutorial

This tutorial gives you a guide to the basics of using Emacs, a popular modeless text editor with many powerful features. The tutorial covers fundamental concepts and common activities, and then builds on those foundations to quickly familiarize you with this excellent editor.

Getting started with Emacs requires navigating a steep learning curve. Our goal is to help you past the initially unfamiliar interface so that the power and utility of Emacs become apparent. Then you'll be ready to explore further on your own, following up on the resources and tips at the end of the tutorial.

The primary users of Emacs are programmers and Web developers who want to get the most out of this powerful and flexible text editor and thereby increase their productivity. Additionally, at least a passing familiarity with Emacs is useful for anyone who performs administrative duties in UNIX or similar environments.

Prerequisites

All you need to work through this tutorial is a copy of Emacs, either GNU Emacs or XEmacs.

If you're running Linux, then you might already have it loaded. Check by typing emacs at a command-line prompt. If nothing happens (or you get a message like "command not found"), then use the package tools that come with your distribution to install one package or the other.

Running another operating system? Check the sites linked above for a version of Emacs that will work for you.

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