Hour 12. An Overview of the emacs Editor

The only screen-oriented editor that's guaranteed to be included with the UNIX system is vi, but that doesn't mean that it's the only good editor available in UNIX! An alternative editor that has become quite popular in the past decade (remember that UNIX is almost 25 years old) is called emacs. This hour teaches you the fundamentals of this very different and quite powerful editing environment.

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