July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 8
8
The Emacs Editor
The Emacs editor is found on many Unix systems, including Linux, because it is a
popular alternative to vi. Many versions are available, but this book documents
the most popular one, GNU Emacs (Version 21.3), which is available from the
Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs).
Emacs is much more than “just an editor”—in fact, it provides a fully integrated
user environment. From within Emacs, you can issue individual shell commands
or open a window where you can work in the shell, read and send mail, read
news, access the Internet, write and test programs, and maintain a calendar. To
fully describe Emacs would require more space than we have available. In this
chapter, therefore, we focus on the editing capabilities of Emacs.
This chapter presents the following topics:
• Conceptual overview
• Command-line syntax
• Summary of emacs commands by group
• Summary of emacs commands by key
• Summary of emacs commands by name
For more information about Emacs, see the O’Reilly book Learning GNU Emacs.
Conceptual Overview
This section describes some Emacs terminology that may be unfamiliar if you
haven’t used Emacs before.
Modes
One of the features that makes Emacs popular is its editing modes. The modes set
up an environment designed for the type
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