Contents

• List of Figures
• License and Version History
• Introduction: Why a Text Editor instead of a Word Processor?
• Xemacs or Emacs?
• Setting up your environment
  • Your Operating System
  • X or Console?
  
  
• Adjust your vocabulary
• The basics
  • How Emacs commands function
  
  
• Files (Opening, Saving, Printing, etc.)
• Getting around with the cursor
• Scrolling
• Bookmarks
• Selecting Text ("Regions")
• Cutting and Pasting (Killing and Yanking)
• Searching and Replacing
• Word wrap (Filling)
  • longlines.el
  • Reformatting Hard Wrapped Documents
  
  
• Formatting
  • End of Line Characters
  
  
• Multiple Windows, Buffers, and Tabs
• Spell Checking
• Macros
• Customizing keys
• Customizing Your Work Environment
  • Colors
  • Default Display Font (``Face'') and Window Size
  • Menus and toolbars
  • Other Environment Settings
  
  
• Emacs and L^ATEX
• Learning more about emacs