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Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. This Info file will help you get started on using XEmacs. It corresponds to XEmacs version 19.13.
| Introduction | Introduction to XEmacs editor | |
| Indices, nodes containing large menus | ||
|---|---|---|
| Key (Character) Index | An item for each standard Emacs key sequence. | |
| Command and Function Index | An item for each command and function name | |
| Variable Index | An item for each variable in User-Guide | |
| Concept Index | An item for the concepts introduced | |
| Entering, Exiting and Editing Emacs | ||
| 1. Entering and Exiting Emacs | Starting Emacs from the shell and Exiting | |
| 2. XEmacs Windows and Menus | Description of Pull-down menus | |
| 3. Basic Editing Commands | Basic Editing commands | |
| Other Features of XEmacs | ||
| 4. Customize key bindings and menus | Customize Emacs menus and keybindings | |
| 5. Help | Help menu and other help commands | |
| 6. Major and Minor Modes | Major and Minor modes in XEmacs | |
| 7. Files | Visiting, Saving and Listing Files | |
| 8. Other Customizations | Customizing Variables, Modes, etc | |
| 9. Selecting and Moving Text | Selecting text and moving text | |
| 10. Searching and Replacing | Searching and Replacing text | |
| -- The Detailed Node Listing --- | ||
| Entering and Exiting Emacs | ||
| 1.1 Entering Emacs | Entering Emacs from the shell | |
| 1.2 Emacs Frame | Basic information about the XEmacs Frame | |
| 1.3 Exiting Emacs | ||
| 1.4 The Mode Line | Interpreting the mode line. | |
| 1.5 The Echo Area | Bottom of the frame where you interact with Emacs. | |
| XEmacs Windows and Menus | ||
| 2.1 XEmacs Windows | Manipulating XEmacs Windows | |
| 2.2 XEmacs Pull-down Menus | Description of XEmacs Pull-down Menus | |
| Pull-down menus | ||
| 2.2.1 The File Menu | Items on the File Menu | |
| 2.2.2 The Edit Menu | Items on the Edit Menu | |
| 2.2.3 The Options Menu | Items on the Options Menu | |
| 2.2.4 The Buffers Menu | Items on the Buffers Menu | |
| 2.2.5 The Help Menu | The Help Menu at the extreme right on the frame | |
| Basic Editing Commands | ||
| 3.1 Inserting Text | Insert text in Emacs by simply typing at the cursor position. | |
| 3.2 Moving Around | Moving Around the cursor in the buffer, | |
| 3.3 Erasing Text | Different commands for erasing text | |
| 3.4 Giving Numeric Arguments | Giving Numeric Arguments to commands | |
| 3.5 Undoing Changes | Undoing Changes made by mistake | |
| Customize key bindings and menus | ||
| 4.1 Customize key bindings | Changing Key Bindings | |
| 4.2 Customizing Menus | Adding, Deleting, Enabling and Disabling Menus | |
| Help | ||
| 5.1 Help menu | Items on the Help Menu | |
| Major and Minor Modes | ||
| 6.1 Major Modes | Choosing Major Modes | |
| 6.2 Minor Modes | Auto-Fill, Abbrev and other minor modes | |
| Emacs Files | ||
| 7.1 File Names | How to type and edit file name arguments. | |
| 7.2 Visiting Files | Visiting a file prepares Emacs to edit the file. | |
| 7.3 Saving Files | How to save Emacs files. | |
| Other Customizations | ||
| 8.1 Other Customizations | Customizing Emacs variables | |
| 8.2 Init File Examples | Some examples of Lisp expressions in init.el file | |
| Selecting and Moving Text | ||
| 9.1 Setting the Mark | Select a region of text by setting the Mark | |
| 9.2 Selecting Text with Mouse | ||
| 9.3 Operating on the Region | Various ways to operate on a selected text | |
| 9.4 Moving Text | ||
| 9.5 Accumulating Text | Accumulating Text from several buffers | |
| No sub menu for the node search and replace | ||