[PLUG] Royal Road to learning emacs

William A Morita wamorita at hevanet.com
Sun Feb 3 23:17:01 UTC 2008


Victor,

Don't depend on the toolbar.

Ctrl-H A Should help you find most commands.
Worst case Ctrl-H Ctrl-H can help you with Help.

The most confusing at first is the meta-X which can be <esc>-X or Alt-X.
Ctrl-X is something completely different.

Suggest you start with the very basic commands:
	^A	Move to beginning of line (Ctrl-A)
	^E	Move to end of line
	^D	Delete character under cursor
	Backspace	Delete preceding character
	Cursor keys
	Escape > Move to end of buffer
	Escape < Move to beginning of buffer
	^s	Search forward
	^r	Search backward

Most of these command also work in Bash with the default settings (or do a
"set -o emacs")

Don't worry about the .emacs file until you understand the very basics.

- Bill Morita 

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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Victor Soich
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 2:52 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Royal Road to learning emacs

Hi all,

For some reason I decided to learn emacs.  I bought the oreily book Learning
Gnu Emacs 3rd edition.  On page 306, it says, "You can hide the toolbar
through the Show/Hide option on the Options menu."
Well...I can't find that option.  I am using Gun emacs 21.4.1, and the book
was written for Gnu emacs 21.3.5.  I'm just trying to take my first baby
step, i.e. not write macros or Lisp, of configure my .emacs file.  Is what I
need in the customization group?  I'm a bit lost.
Could someone  just please show me the lay of the land please?

Sincerely,
Victor Soich
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