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The emacs Editor

Remember the tutorial-1 file you copied into your account earlier? Now you get to find out for what it is a tutorial. At the system prompt type the following:

emacs tutorial-1 &
You just instructed the system to open the emacs texteditor program and automatically load in the file called tutorial-1. You will need to move and resize the window a little. Move the window to the top of the screen. Grab the bottom of the window and stretch it until,
»Adjust the Emacs editor window to include this line.«
is the last line of text in the window. If you are not sure that you did this correctly, signal your professor or TA.

This file is a tutorial for helping you to learn how to use some of the features of the emacs editor. It is designed to be self contained so that no further instruction from us is necessary. Start reading through the tutorial and complete the exercises presented as you go along. If you have any problems, please ask questions.



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2002-08-29