Now you know the basic commands for starting and stopping Emacs and
for working with files. Chapter 2 builds on
these commands to give you the skills
you need for editing with Emacs. Table 1-4
summarizes the commands we covered in this chapter.
Table 1-4. File handling commands
|
Keystrokes
|
Command name
|
Action
|
|---|
|
C-x C-fFile
 Open File
|
find-file
|
Find file and read it in a new buffer.
|
|
C-x C-v
|
find-alternate-file
|
Read an alternate file, replacing the one read with C-x C-f.
|
|
C-x iFile Insert File
|
insert-file
|
Insert file at cursor position.
|
|
C-x C-sFile Save (current
buffer)
|
save-buffer
|
Save file.
|
|
C-x C-wFile Save Buffer As
|
write-file
|
Write buffer contents to file.
|
|
C-x C-cFile Exit Emacs
|
save-buffers-kill-emacs
|
Exit Emacs.
|
|
C-h
|
help-command
|
Enter the online help system.
|
|
C-h fHelp Describe
Function
|
describe-function
|
Gives online help for a given command name.
|
| | | |
|
C-h kHelp Describe Key
|
describe-key
|
Gives online help for a given keystroke sequence.
|
|
C-h tHelp Emacs Tutorial
|
help-with-tutorial
|
Start the Emacs tutorial.
|
|
C-h iHelp Browse Manuals
|
info-goto-emacs-command-node
|
Start the Info documentation reader.
|
Emacs doesn't do what this
book says or look like our screenshots. Make sure that you
have GNU Emacs 21.3.5
or
later running by typing M-x version
Enter or selecting Help About Emacs. Read the
section "Making Emacs Work the Way You
Want" in Chapter 2. You may
need to install a graphical version of Emacs if you are running in a
terminal window; see Chapter 13 for details.
The toolbar icons are completely
different. The icons changed between Emacs 21.3.1 and
Emacs 21.3.5. The older
icons do the same thing; the newer ones
are substantially better looking and more intuitive. Upgrade Emacs
using instructions in Chapter 13.
You can't access menus using
the mouse. Use
the text-based menus instead by
pressing F10 or M-`. Better yet, install a graphical version
of Emacs using the instructions in Chapter 13.
PgUp doesn't work
properly when
using text-based menus. PgUp is
probably bound to some application-specific function, such as
scrolling in the Mac OS X Terminal application. Press Shift-PgUp, F10, or M-`
to access the menus.
You can't see a mode line or
minibuffer. Your Emacs
window is bigger than your display. See Chapter 10 for information on how to get Emacs to
start with a reasonable window size. As a temporary workaround,
resize the window. (On some Windows systems, maximizing the window
ironically makes it smaller, solving the problem.)
