Chapter 8. The Emacs Editor

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Although most commercial operating systems do not come with Emacs , it is available for all versions of Unix, including Mac OS X, and MS-Windows. (GNU/Linux systems usually do supply it.) On all these systems, there are often multiple versions: one for character terminals, another for X11, and possibly yet another for the native windowing system. This text editor is a popular alternative to vi. This chapter documents GNU Emacs (Version 21.3), which is available from the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs).

This chapter presents the following topics:

  • Conceptual overview

  • Command-line syntax

  • Summary of emacs commands by group

  • Summary of emacs commands by key

  • Summary of emacs commands by name

For more information about emacs, see Learning GNU Emacs, listed in the Bibliography.

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    Unix in a Nutshell
    Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition
    ISBN: 0596100299
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 201

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