Harley Hahn's Emacs Field Guide

Contents at a Glance
Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
A Personal Note from Harley Hahn
Chapter 1: All About Emacs
	Section 1.1: Getting Started Together
	Section 1.2: Emacs Is a Text Editor
	Section 1.3: Emacs Is a Working Environment
	Section: 1.4: Where Did Emacs Come From?
	Section 1.5: The Free Software Foundation
	Section 1.6: Excerpts From The Gnu Manifesto
Chapter 2: Unix for Emacs Users
	Section 2.1: Operating Systems
	Section 2.2: Unix and Linux
	Section 2.3: Unix Terminals and Userids
	Section 2.4: Types of Terminals
	Section 2.5: User Interfaces
	Section 2.6: Using a Unix Terminal
	Section 2.7: The Unix Command Line
	Section 2.8: The Shell Prompt
	Section 2.9: What Unix Commands Look Like
	Section 2.10: Making Corrections as You Type Commands
	Section 2.11: Two Important Keys:  and 
	Section 2.12: The History List; Command Line Editing
	Section 2.13: The Unix Manual
	Section 2.14: Using the less Pager Program
	Section 2.15: The Three Types of Unix Files
	Section 2.16: The Tree-Structured Filesystem
	Section 2.17: The Current Directory and Pathnames
	Section 2.18: File and Directory Names
		1. LENGTH
		2. CHARACTERS
		3. UPPER AND LOWER CASE
		4. DOTFILES
	Section 2.19: File and Directory Names: OS X and Windows
		Mac OS X:
		Microsoft Windows:
Chapter 3: Installing Emacs
	Section 3.1: Installing Software: Packages vs. Manual Installation
	Section 3.2: Installing Emacs Using a Linux Package Manager
		Installing Emacs with APT
		Installing Emacs with RPM
	Section 3.3: Installing Emacs Manually With Linux
	Section 3.4: Installing Emacs With OS X
		1. ENABLE THE RUNNING OF PROGRAMS DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET
		2. DOWNLOAD A DISK IMAGE OF THE INSTALLATION SOFTWARE
		3. MOUNT THE DMG FILE
		4. INSTALL EMACS
		5. CREATE A DOCK ICON
		6. START EMACS TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS
		7. QUIT EMACS
		8. “EJECT” THE DISC IMAGE
		9. DELETE THE DMG FILE
	Uninstalling Emacs
	Section 3.5: Installing Emacs With Microsoft Windows
		1. CREATE AN EMACS DIRECTORY
		2. DOWNLOAD THE EMACS ARCHIVE
		3. EXTRACT THE CONTENTS OF THE ARCHIVE
		3. START EMACS TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS
		4. MAKE EMACS EASY TO RUN
		5. CLEAN UP
Chapter 4: The Emacs Keyboard
	Section 4.1: A Strategy for Learning Emacs
	Section 4.2: The Ctrl Key
	Section 4.3: The Meta (Alt) Key
	Section 4.4: Special Key Names
	Section 4.5: The Meta Key, Bucky Bits, and Much More
	Section 4.6: Meta Key Problems When Using a Terminal Window
Chapter 5: Starting and Stopping Emacs
	Section 5.1: Starting Emacs
	Section 5.2: Starting Emacs in a Terminal Window
	Section 5.3: Starting Emacs as a Read-Only Editor
	Section 5.4: Recovering Data After a System Failure
	Section 5.5: Stopping Emacs
Chapter 6: Commands, Buffers, Windows
	Section 6.1: Commands and Key Bindings
	Section 6.2: Buffers
	Section 6.3: Windows
	Section 6.4: The Mode Line / Read-Only Viewing
	Section 6.5: The Echo Area / Typing Emacs Commands
	Section 6.6: The Minibuffer
	Section 6.7: Completion
	Section 6.8: Disabled Commands
Chapter 7: The Text Editing Work Environment
	Section 7.1: How to Practice Using Emacs
	Section 7.2: Typing and Correcting
	Section 7.3: The repeat and undo Commands; Redo
	Section 7.4: The keyboard-quit Command (C-g)
	Section 7.5: Emacs for vi Users
	Section 7.6: Commands to Control Windows
	Section 7.7: Commands to Control Buffers
	Section 7.8: Commands for Working With Files
Chapter 8: The Cursor; Line Numbers; Point and Mark; The Region
	Section 8.1: The Cursor and the Idea of Point
	Section 8.2: Moving the Cursor
	Section 8.3: Text Modes; Paragraphs and Sentences
	Section 8.4: Repeating a Command: Prefix Arguments
	Section: 8.5: Moving Through the Buffer
	Section 8.6: Using Line Numbers
	Section 8.7: Mark, Point, and the Region
	Section 8.8: Using Mark and Point to Define the Region
	Section 8.9: Operating on the Region
Chapter 9: Kill and Delete; Move and Copy; Correct Mistakes; Spelling; Fill
	Section 9.1: Kill and Delete: Two Ways to Erase Text
	Section 9.2: Commands to Delete Text
	Section 9.3: Commands to Kill Text
	Section 9.4: The Kill Ring and Yanking; Moving and Copying
	Section 9.5: Correcting Common Typing Mistakes
	Section 9.6: Correcting Spelling Mistakes
	Section 9.7: Filling and Formatting Text
Chapter 10: Searching
	Section 10.1: Introducing the Emacs Search Commands
	Section 10.2: Incremental Searching
	Section 10.3: Keys to Use While Searching
	Section 10.4: Upper- and Lowercase Searching
	Section 10.5: Non-Incremental Searching
	Section 10.6: Word Searching
	Section 10.7: Searching for Regular Expressions
	Section 10.8: Regular Expressions
	Section 10.9: Fixing Emacs Key Conflicts
	Section 10.10: Searching and Replacing
	Section 10.11: Recursive Editing
Chapter 11: Modes; Customizing Using Your .emacs File
	Section 11.1: Introducing Modes
	Section 11.2: Major Modes
	Section 11.3: Lists of Major Modes
	Section 11.4: Minor Modes
	Section 11.5: Setting Major and Minor Modes
	Section 11.6: Read-Only Mode
	Section 11.7: Learning About Modes
	Section 11.8: Customizing With the .emacs File; Learning Lisp
	Section 11.9: Using Your .emacs File to Set Default Modes
Chapter 12: Shell Commands; Help and Info; Programs and Games
	Section 12.1: Entering Shell Commands
	Section 12.2: Shell Buffers
	Section 12.3: The Help Facility
	Section 12.4: The Emacs Tutorial; Info and the Emacs Reference Manuals
	Section 12.5: Built-In Programs
	Section 12.6: Built-In Tools, Including Dired
		DIRED FILE MANAGER (dired)
		CALENDAR AND DIARY (calendar)
		CUSTOMIZE (customize)
		EMACS WEB BROWSER (eww)
		SIMPLE EMACS SPREADSHEET (ses)
	Section 12.7: Games and Diversions
	Section 12.8: Zippy the Pinhead Talks to the Emacs Psychotherapist
	Section 12.9: A Personal Note From Harley Hahn
Appendix A: Personal Notes
	Personal Note #1: Teaching Yourself Emacs
	Personal Note #2: Computer With a Keyboard
	Personal Note #3: Usenet, Emacs, and the Growth of the Internet
	Personal Note #4: Free/Open Source Software
	Personal Note #5: GNU’s Not Unix?
	Personal Note #6: Our Tools Shape Our Minds
	Personal Note #7: AT&T
	Personal Note #8: Early Unix on the West Coast
	Personal Note #9: BSD Unix in the 1980s
	Personal Note #10: Hackers and Geeks
	Personal Note #11: Bash
	Personal Note #12: Linux Is Free
	Personal Note #13: Mac OS X Is Unix
	Personal Note #14: Terminals That Print
	Personal Note #15: Why U.C. San Diego in 1976?
	Personal Note #16: 80- and 132-character Lines
	Personal Note #17: Unix Workstations
	Personal Note #18: Time Travel
	Personal Note #19: Midnight Commander
	Personal Note #20: KDE and Gnome
	Personal Note #21: Aren’t All Terminals Virtual?
	Personal Note #22: Ubuntu Terminal Emulators
	Personal Note #23: How to Access the Command Line With Mac OS X and Windows
	Personal Note #24: Freddy and the Men From Mars
	Personal Note #25: Special Files and Proc Files
	Personal Note #26: How Many Files Are on Your Unix System?
	Personal Note #27: Comparing Unix Packages to Commercial Apps
Appendix B: Command Summaries
Index of Emacs Key Sequences
Index of Emacs Variables and Functions
Index of Unix Keys, Files and Commands
General Index