Name
emacs — stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version
Synopsis
emacs [options
] [files
]
emacs is an extremely powerful editing environment with more commands than you could possibly imagine, plus a complete programming language to define your own editing features. To invoke emacs in a new X window, run:
$ emacs
To run in a existing shell window:
$ emacs -nw
Now to invoke the built-in emacs tutorial, type ^h t
.
Most emacs keystroke commands involve the control key (like
^F
) or the
meta key, which is usually the Escape key
or the Alt key. emacs’s own documentation notates the meta key as
M-
(as in M-F
to mean “hold the meta key and type
F”), so we will too. For basic keystrokes, see Table 1-1.
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