Chapter 6. The Emacs Editor

Table of Contents

What is Emacs?
Starting Emacs to Edit a File
Notation for Emacs' Key Sequences
Exiting From Emacs
Saving the Contents of the File
Reading A File
Moving the Cursor and Moving Text Within the Screen
Cutting and Pasting a Region of Text
Recovering From Errors
Using Auto-save's Backup Copy of File
Searching for Character Strings
Splitting the Screen and Multiple Files
On-line Help and On-line Emacs Tutorial
Summary of Some Emacs Commands

What is Emacs?

Emacs is a powerful text editor that is available on the Sun systems. It has many advantages over other text editors in that it can provide helpful formatting, such as indenting and syntax highlighting.