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 | ||
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| • 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 | |
— The Detailed Node Listing — 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 | ||