1.11. Summary


Now you know the basic commands for starting and stopping Emacs and for working with files. Chapter 2 builds on these commands to give you the skills you need for editing with Emacs. Table 1-4 summarizes the commands we covered in this chapter.

Table 1-4. File handling commands

Keystrokes

Command name

Action

C-x C-fFile

find-file

Find file and read it in a new buffer.

C-x C-v

find-alternate-file

Read an alternate file, replacing the one read with C-x C-f.

C-x iFile Insert File

insert-file

Insert file at cursor position.

C-x C-sFile Save (current buffer)

save-buffer

Save file.

C-x C-wFile Save Buffer As

write-file

Write buffer contents to file.

C-x C-cFile Exit Emacs

save-buffers-kill-emacs

Exit Emacs.

C-h

help-command

Enter the online help system.

C-h fHelp Describe Function

describe-function

Gives online help for a given command name.

   

C-h kHelp Describe Key

describe-key

Gives online help for a given keystroke sequence.

C-h tHelp Emacs Tutorial

help-with-tutorial

Start the Emacs tutorial.

C-h iHelp Browse Manuals

info-goto-emacs-command-node

Start the Info documentation reader.


1.11.1 Problems You May Encounter

  • Emacs doesn't do what this book says or look like our screenshots. Make sure that you have GNU Emacs 21.3.5 or later running by typing M-x version Enter or selecting Help About Emacs. Read the section "Making Emacs Work the Way You Want" in Chapter 2. You may need to install a graphical version of Emacs if you are running in a terminal window; see Chapter 13 for details.

  • The toolbar icons are completely different. The icons changed between Emacs 21.3.1 and Emacs 21.3.5. The older icons do the same thing; the newer ones are substantially better looking and more intuitive. Upgrade Emacs using instructions in Chapter 13.

  • You can't access menus using the mouse. Use the text-based menus instead by pressing F10 or M-`. Better yet, install a graphical version of Emacs using the instructions in Chapter 13.

  • PgUp doesn't work properly when using text-based menus. PgUp is probably bound to some application-specific function, such as scrolling in the Mac OS X Terminal application. Press Shift-PgUp, F10, or M-` to access the menus.

  • You can't see a mode line or minibuffer. Your Emacs window is bigger than your display. See Chapter 10 for information on how to get Emacs to start with a reasonable window size. As a temporary workaround, resize the window. (On some Windows systems, maximizing the window ironically makes it smaller, solving the problem.)



Learning GNU Emacs
Learning GNU Emacs, Third Edition
ISBN: 0596006489
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 161

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