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1 online resource (xxii, 509 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Preface; Why Read This Book?; Which Emacs Is Which?; What's New in This Edition?; GNU Emacs and the Free Software Foundation; An Approach to Learning Emacs; What We Haven't Included; The Meta Key; Conventions Used in This Book; Keystroke Notation; Command Tables; Examples; Font Usage; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Emacs Basics; Introducing Emacs!; Understanding Files and Buffers; A Word About Modes; Starting Emacs; About the Emacs Display; The Toolbar; The Menus; The Mode Line; The Minibuffer; Emacs Commands; Opening a File; If You Read the Wrong File |
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Letting Emacs Fill in the BlanksInserting and Appending Files; How Emacs Chooses a Default Directory; Saving Files; Leaving Emacs; Getting Help; The Help Menu; Summary; Problems You May Encounter; Editing; Moving the Cursor; Other Ways to Move the Cursor; Moving a Screen (or More) at a Time; Repeating Commands; Centering the Display; Emacs Commands and Your Keyboard; Deleting Text; The Kill Ring; Marking Text to Delete, Move, or Copy; Copying Text; Recovering Earlier Deletions; Selecting and Pasting; Emacs and the Clipboard; Placing Text on the Clipboard; Retrieving Text from the Clipboard |
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Editing Tricks and ShortcutsFixing Transpositions; Changing Capitalization; Overwrite Mode; Canceling Commands and Undoing Changes; Canceling Commands; Undoing Changes; Reverting a Buffer from a File; Going Back to a Previous Version: Backup Files; Recovering Lost Changes; Making Emacs Work the Way You Want; Hiding the Toolbar; Turning On CUA Mode for C-x, C-c, and C-v to Cut, Copy, and Paste; Turning On Text Mode and Auto-Fill Mode Automatically; Remapping Keys; Problems You May Encounter; Search and Replace; Different Kinds of Searches; Incremental Search; Simple Searches; Word Search |
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Search and ReplaceSimple Search and Replace Operations; Query-Replace; Repeating Query-Replaces (and Other Complex Commands); Recursive Editing; Are Emacs Searches Case-Sensitive?; Regular Expressions for Search and Replacement Operations; Checking Spelling Using Ispell; Checking a Buffer; Checking a Single Word; Completing a Word; Spellchecking on the Fly with Flyspell; Word Abbreviations; Dynamic Abbreviations; Word Abbreviation Mode; Trying word abbreviations for one session; Making word abbreviations part of your startup; Deleting a word abbreviation; Disabling word abbreviations |
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Abbreviations and capitalizationProblems You May Encounter; Using Buffers, Windows, and Frames; Understanding Buffers, Windows, and Frames; Windows Versus Frames; Buffers: Independent of Windows and Frames; More About Buffers; Working with Multiple Buffers; Switching Buffers; Deleting Buffers; Working with Windows; Creating Horizontal Windows; Moving Between Windows; Getting Rid of Windows; Working with Frames; Creating a New Frame; Moving Between Frames; Deleting and Minimizing Frames; More About Buffers; Saving Multiple Buffers; Renaming Buffers; Read-Only Buffers; Getting a List of Buffers |
| Summary |
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. Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition tells readers how to get started with the GNU Emacs editor. It is a thorough guide that will also ""grow"" with you: as you become more proficient, this book will help you learn how to use Emacs more effectively. It takes you from basic Emacs usage (simple text editing) to moderately complicated customiza |
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"A guide to the world's most extensible, customizable editor"--Cover |
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"Safari Books online enabled"--Page 4 of cover |
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Includes glossary (p. 487-492) and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
GNU Emacs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91060970
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GNU Emacs fast |
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Text editors (Computer programs)
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COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- General.
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Text editors (Computer programs)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cameron, Debra
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| ISBN |
9780596523176 |
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0596523173 |
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9780596552374 |
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0596552378 |
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