XEmacs User's Manual
July 1994 (General Public License upgraded, January 1991)
Richard Stallman
and
Rashmi Goyal Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1988 Richard M. Stallman.
Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Lucid, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.
This User's manual is intended to help you get started on using the Emacs editor. It will show you some examples of simple customizations.
For detailed information on any topic, refer to the XEmacs Reference Manual. This document will also refer the reader to the XEmacs Reference Manual for more information on corresponding topics. You can also use the on-line, learn-by-doing tutorial, which you get by running Emacs and typing C-h t OR you can choose the Emacs Tutorial from the Help menu on the menu bar (which is located on the extreme right of the frame). With it, you learn Emacs by using Emacs on a specially designed file which describes commands, tells you when to try them, and then explains the results you see.
The first few chapters will introduce you to some basic Emacs commands. Later on, some examples of simple customizations will be shown.
To find the documentation on a particular command, look in the index. Keys (character commands) and command names have separate indexes. There is also a glossary, with a cross reference for each term.
This manual comes in two forms: the published form and the Info form. The Info form is for on-line perusal with the INFO program; it is distributed along with XEmacs. Both forms contain substantially the same text and are generated from a common source file, which is also distributed along with XEmacs.