Getting Started With SXEmacs

The Emacs Editor

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. This Info file will help you get started on using SXEmacs. It corresponds to SXEmacs version 19.13.

• Intro: Introduction to SXEmacs editor

  Indices, nodes containing large menus

• Key Index: An item for each standard Emacs key sequence.
• Command 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

• Entering: Starting Emacs from the shell and Exiting
• Windows and Menus: Description of Pull-down menus
• Edit: Basic Editing commands

  Other Features of SXEmacs

• Customization Basics: Customize Emacs menus and keybindings
• Help: Help menu and other help commands
• Modes: Major and Minor modes in SXEmacs
• Files: Visiting, Saving and Listing Files
• Other Customizations: Customizing Variables, Modes, etc
• Select and Move: Selecting text and moving text
• Search and Replace: Searching and Replacing text

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  Entering and Exiting Emacs

• Enter: Entering Emacs from the shell
• Frame: Basic information about the SXEmacs Frame
• Exiting: Exiting Emacs
• Mode Line: Interpreting the mode line.
• Echo Area: Bottom of the frame where you interact with Emacs.

  SXEmacs Windows and Menus

• SXEmacs Window: Manipulating SXEmacs Windows
• Pull-down Menus: Description of SXEmacs Pull-down Menus

  Pull-down menus

• File menu: Items on the File Menu
• Edit menu: Items on the Edit Menu
• Options Menu: Items on the Options Menu
• Buffers Menu: Items on the Buffers Menu
• Help menu: The Help Menu at the extreme right on the frame

  Basic Editing Commands

• Insert: Insert text in Emacs by simply typing at the cursor position.
• Cursor Position: Moving Around the cursor in the buffer,
• Erase: Different commands for erasing text
• Numeric Argument: Giving Numeric Arguments to commands
• Undo: Undoing Changes made by mistake

  Customize key bindings and menus

• Customizing key Bindings: Changing Key Bindings
• Customizing Menus: Adding, Deleting, Enabling and Disabling Menus

  Help

• The Help Menu: Items on the Help Menu

  Major and Minor Modes

• Major Modes: Choosing Major Modes
• Minor Modes: Auto-Fill, Abbrev and other minor modes

  Emacs Files

• File Names: How to type and edit file name arguments.
• Visiting: Visiting a file prepares Emacs to edit the file.
• Saving Files: How to save Emacs files.

  Other Customizations

• Setting Variables: Customizing Emacs variables
• Init File: Some examples of Lisp expressions in init.el file

  Selecting and Moving Text

• Selecting Text: Select a region of text by setting the Mark
• Mouse: Selecting Text with Mouse
• Region Operation: Various ways to operate on a selected text
• Moving Text: Moving Text
• Accumulating text: Accumulating Text from several buffers

  No sub menu for the node search and replace