Chapter 8. The Emacs Editor
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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