Emacs Beginner's HOWTO

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Emacs Beginner's HOWTO...............................................................................................................................

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Jeremy D. Zawodny: Jeremy@Zawodny.com........................................................................................

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1. Introduction.........................................................................................................................................

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2. Running Emacs ...................................................................................................................................

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3. Emacs Modes.......................................................................................................................................

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4. Customizing Emacs ............................................................................................................................

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5. Popular Packages ................................................................................................................................

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6. Other Resources ..................................................................................................................................

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7. Credits .................................................................................................................................................

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1. Introduction........................................................................................................................................

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1.1 Copyright...........................................................................................................................................

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1.2 Audience and Intent...........................................................................................................................

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1.3 What is Emacs?..................................................................................................................................

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Ports and Versions......................................................................................................................

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Getting Emacs.............................................................................................................................

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2. Running Emacs ..................................................................................................................................

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2.1 Starting & Quitting Emacs.................................................................................................................

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What you'll see............................................................................................................................

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The Menu Bar.............................................................................................................................

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The Status Bar and Mini−buffer .................................................................................................

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2.2 Some Terminology............................................................................................................................

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Buffers & Files............................................................................................................................

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Point & Region...........................................................................................................................

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Windows.....................................................................................................................................

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Frames.........................................................................................................................................

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2.3 Keyboard Basics................................................................................................................................

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Command Keys (Meta, Esc, Control, and Alt)...........................................................................

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Moving Around in a Buffer........................................................................................................

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Essential Commands...................................................................................................................

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Tab Completion..........................................................................................................................

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2.4 Tutorial, Help, & Info........................................................................................................................

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3. Emacs Modes.......................................................................................................................................

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3.1 Major vs. Minor Modes.....................................................................................................................

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3.2 Programming Modes..........................................................................................................................

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C/C++/Java...............................................................................................................................

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Perl............................................................................................................................................

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Python.......................................................................................................................................

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Others........................................................................................................................................

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3.3 Authoring.........................................................................................................................................

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Spell−Checking (ispell mode)..................................................................................................

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HTML (html−helper mode)......................................................................................................

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TeX (tex−mode )........................................................................................................................

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SGML (sgml−mode ).................................................................................................................

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3.4 Other Modes.....................................................................................................................................

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Version Control (vc mode).......................................................................................................

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Shell Mode................................................................................................................................

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Telnet and FTP..........................................................................................................................

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Man...........................................................................................................................................

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Emacs Beginner's HOWTO

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Ange−FTP.................................................................................................................................

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4. Customizing Emacs .........................................................................................................................

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4.1 Temporary Customization...............................................................................................................

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Variable Assignments...............................................................................................................

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File Associations.......................................................................................................................

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4.2 Using a .emacs File..........................................................................................................................

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4.3 The Customize Package...................................................................................................................

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4.4 X Windows Display.........................................................................................................................

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5. Popular Packages .............................................................................................................................

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5.1 VM (Mail)........................................................................................................................................

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5.2 Gnus (Mail and News).....................................................................................................................

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5.3 BBDB (A rolodex)...........................................................................................................................

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5.4 AucTeX (another TeX mode)..........................................................................................................

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6. Other Resources ...............................................................................................................................

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6.1 Books...............................................................................................................................................

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Learning GNU Emacs...............................................................................................................

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Writing GNU Emacs Extensions..............................................................................................

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Programming in Emacs Lisp: An Introduction.........................................................................

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The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual................................................................................

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6.2 Web Sites.........................................................................................................................................

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EMACSulation..........................................................................................................................

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6.3 Newsgroups......................................................................................................................................

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6.4 Mailing Lists....................................................................................................................................

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6.5 The Emacs Lisp Archive..................................................................................................................

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7. Credits ..............................................................................................................................................

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