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Copyright
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Preface
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Why Read This Book?
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Which Emacs Is Which?
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What's New in This Edition?
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GNU Emacs and the Free Software Foundation
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An Approach to Learning Emacs
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What We Haven't Included
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The Meta Key
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Conventions Used in This Book
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How to Contact Us
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Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1. Emacs Basics
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Section 1.1. Introducing Emacs!
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Section 1.2. Understanding Files and Buffers
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Section 1.3. A Word About Modes
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Section 1.4. Starting Emacs
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Section 1.5. About the Emacs Display
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Section 1.6. Emacs Commands
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Section 1.7. Opening a File
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Section 1.8. Saving Files
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Section 1.9. Leaving Emacs
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Section 1.10. Getting Help
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Section 1.11. Summary
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Chapter 2. Editing
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Section 2.1. Moving the Cursor
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Section 2.2. Deleting Text
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Section 2.3. Marking Text to Delete, Move, or Copy
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Section 2.4. Emacs and the Clipboard
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Section 2.5. Editing Tricks and Shortcuts
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Section 2.6. Canceling Commands and Undoing Changes
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Section 2.7. Making Emacs Work the Way You Want
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Chapter 3. Search and Replace
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Section 3.1. Different Kinds of Searches
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Section 3.2. Search and Replace
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Section 3.3. Checking Spelling Using Ispell
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Section 3.4. Word Abbreviations
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Chapter 4. Using Buffers, Windows, and Frames
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Section 4.1. Understanding Buffers, Windows, and Frames
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Section 4.2. Working with Multiple Buffers
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Section 4.3. Working with Windows
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Section 4.4. Working with Frames
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Section 4.5. More About Buffers
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Section 4.6. More About Windows
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Section 4.7. Holding Your Place with Bookmarks
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Chapter 5. Emacs as a Work Environment
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Section 5.1. Executing Commands in Shell Buffers
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Section 5.2. Using Dired, the Directory Editor
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Section 5.3. Printing from Emacs
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Section 5.4. Reading Manpages in Emacs
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Section 5.5. Using Time Management Tools
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Chapter 6. Writing Macros
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Section 6.1. Defining a Macro
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Section 6.2. Tips for Creating Good Macros
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Section 6.3. A More Complicated Macro Example
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Section 6.4. Editing a Macro
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Section 6.5. The Macro Ring
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Section 6.6. Binding Your Macro to a Key
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Section 6.7. Naming, Saving, and Executing Your Macros
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Section 6.8. Building More Complicated Macros
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Section 6.9. Executing Macros on a Region
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Section 6.10. Beyond Macros
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Chapter 7. Simple Text Formatting and Specialized Editing
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Section 7.1. Using Tabs
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Section 7.2. Indenting Text
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Section 7.3. Centering Text
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Section 7.4. Using Outline Mode
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Section 7.5. Rectangle Editing
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Section 7.6. Making Simple Drawings
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Chapter 8. Markup Language Support
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Section 8.1. Comments
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Section 8.2. Font-Lock Mode
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Section 8.3. Writing HTML
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Section 8.4. Writing XML
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Section 8.5. Marking up Text for TEX and LATEX
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Chapter 9. Computer Language Support
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Section 9.1. Emacs as an IDE
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Section 9.2. Writing Code
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Section 9.3. C and C++ Support
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Section 9.4. Java Support
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Section 9.5. The Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE)
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Section 9.6. Perl Support
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Section 9.7. SQL Support
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Section 9.8. The Lisp Modes
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Chapter 10. Customizing Emacs
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Section 10.1. Using Custom
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Section 10.2. Modifying the .emacs File Directly
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Section 10.3. Modifying Fonts and Colors
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Section 10.4. Customizing Your Key Bindings
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Section 10.5. Setting Emacs Variables
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Section 10.6. Finding Emacs Lisp Packages
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Section 10.7. Starting Modes via Auto-Mode Customization
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Section 10.8. Making Emacs Work the Way You Think It Should
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Chapter 11. Emacs Lisp Programming
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Section 11.1. Introduction to Lisp
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Section 11.2. Lisp Primitive Functions
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Section 11.3. Useful Built-in Emacs Functions
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Section 11.4. Building an Automatic Template System
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Section 11.5. Programming a Major Mode
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Section 11.6. Customizing Existing Modes
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Section 11.7. Building Your Own Lisp Library
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Chapter 12. Version Control
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Section 12.1. The Uses of Version Control
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Section 12.2. Version Control Concepts
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Section 12.3. How VC Helps with Basic Operations
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Section 12.4. Editing Comment Buffers
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Section 12.5. VC Command Summary
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Section 12.6. VC Mode Indicators
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Section 12.7. Which Version Control System?
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Section 12.8. Individual VC Commands
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Section 12.9. Customizing VC
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Section 12.10. Extending VC
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Section 12.11. What VC Is Not
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Section 12.12. Using VC Effectively
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Section 12.13. Comparing with Ediff
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Chapter 13. Platform-Specific Considerations
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Section 13.1. Emacs and Unix
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Section 13.2. Emacs and Mac OS X
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Section 13.3. Emacs and Windows
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Chapter 14. The Help System
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Section 14.1. Using the Tutorial
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Section 14.2. Help Commands
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Section 14.3. Help with Complex Emacs Commands
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Section 14.4. Navigating Emacs Documentation
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Section 14.5. Completion
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Appendix A. Emacs Variables
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Appendix B. Emacs Lisp Packages
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Appendix C. Bugs and Bug Fixes
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Appendix D. Online Resources
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Appendix E. Quick Reference
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Colophon
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Index
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