Contents

• Introduction
  • License and Version History
  • Introduction: Why a Text Editor instead of a Word Processor?
  
  
• Setting Up
  • Emacs on Linux/Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows
  • X or Console?
  
  
• The Basics
  • Some Vocabulary
  • Emacs Commands
  • Files (Opening, Saving, Printing, etc.)
  • Navigating
  • Scrolling
  • Bookmarks
  • Selecting Text (``Regions'')
  • Cutting and Pasting (Killing and Yanking)
  • Searching and Replacing
  
  
• Foreign Languages and Foreign Characters
  • Occasional Diacriticals
  • Writing in a Foreign Alphabet
  • Inserting Special Characters
  
  
• Formatting Your Text
  • Word wrap
  • Reformatting Hard Wrapped Documents
  • Transposing Letters/Words/Lines
  • Cleaning Up Spacing
  • Changing Case
  • End of Line Characters
  
  
• Multiple Windows, Buffers, and Frames
• Spell Checking
• Customizing your Environment
  • Macros
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Fonts and Colors
  • Default Window Parameters
  • Menus and Toolbars
  • Other Environment Settings
  
  
• Next Steps
  • Learning more about emacs
  • Emacs and L^ATEX
  
  
• Acknowledgments