3 Basic Editing Commands
This chapter will introduce you to some basic editing commands. You
can also learn the basic editing commands by typing Control-h t
(help-with-tutorial OR by selecting Emacs Tutorial from the
Help menu on the menu bar. Most of the Emacs commands will use the
<CONTROL> key or the <META> key. The following abbreviations
will be used for the <CONTROL> and <META> key in this manual:
- C-<chr>
- This means that you should hold down the <CONTROL> key while typing
<chr>. For example, if the command is C-g, you should hold
the <CONTROL> key and type <g>.
- M-<chr>
- This means that you should hold down the META key while typing
<chr>. If there is no META key on your keyboard, use the
ESC key instead. For example, if the command is M-x, then
type ESC, release it and type x.
The following abbreviations will be used for some other keys:
- <SPC>
- Space bar.
- <RET>
- Return key.
- <LFD>
- Linefeed key.
- <TAB>
- Tab.
- <ESC>
- Escape.
- <SFT>
- Shift.