GNU Emacs pocket reference

GNU Emacs is the most popular and widespread of the Emacs family of editors. It is also the most powerful and flexible. Unlike all other text editors, GNU Emacs is a complete working environment -- you can stay within Emacs all day without leaving. The GNU Emacs Pocket Reference is a companion volume to O'Reilly's Learning GNU Emacs, which tells you how to get started with the GNU Emacs editor and, as you become more proficient, it will help you learn how to use Emacs more effectively. This small book, covering Emacs version 20, is a handy reference guide to.

Table of Contents; Introduction; Emacs Commands; Conventions; 1. Emacs Basics; A Word About Modes; Major modes; Minor modes; Starting and Leaving Emacs; Working with Files; Letting Emacs Fill in the Blanks; 2. Editing Files; Working in Text Mode; Moving the Cursor; Repeating Commands; Cutting Text; Marking Text to Delete, Move, or Copy; Using a Mouse with Emacs; Transposing and Capitalizing Text; Stopping Commands; Undoing Edits; Recovering Lost Changes; 3. Search and Replace Operations; Incremental Search; Nonincremental and Word Search; Query Replace; Regular Expression Search and Replace

Characters for creating regular expressionsRegular Expression Search Commands; Spellchecking; Word Abbreviations; 4. Using Buffers and Windows; Using Buffers; Buffer list commands; Using Windows; Using Frames; Using Bookmarks; Bookmark commands; Bookmark list; 5. Emacs as a Work Environment; Shell Mode; Working with Dired; Printing; Calendar and Diary Commands; 6. Email and Newsgroups; Sending Mail; Reading Mail with RMAIL; Reading Mail with Gnus; Gnus group buffer commands; Gnus summary buffer commands; Gnus posting commands; 7. Emacs and the Internet; Telnet Commands

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