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Harley Hahn's Emacs field guide / Harley Hahn

Author
Hahn, Harley, 1952-
Additional Titles
Emacs field guide
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : Apress, [2016]
New York, NY : Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer Science+Business Media New York
Copyright Date
©2016
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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Contents
1. All About Emacs -- 2. Unix for Emacs Users -- 3. Installing Emacs -- 4. The Emacs Keyboard -- 5. Starting and Stopping Emacs -- 6. Commands, Buffers, Windows -- 7. The Text Editing Work Environment -- 8. The Cursor; Line Numbers; Point and Mark; The Region -- 9. Kill and Delete; Move and Copy; Correct Mistakes; Spelling; Fill -- 10. Search -- Appendix A. Personal Notes -- Appendix B. Command Summaries.
Summary
In this book, Harley Hahn demystifies Emacs for programmers, students, and everyday users. The first part of the book carefully creates a context for your work with Emacs. What exactly is Emacs? How does it relate to your personal need to work quickly and to solve problems? Hahn then explains the technical details you need to understand to work with your operating system, the various interfaces, and your file system. In the second part of the book, Hahn provides an authoritative guide to the fundamentals of thinking and creating within the Emacs environment. You start by learning how to install and use Emacs with Linux, BSD-based Unix, Mac OS X, or Microsoft Windows. Written with Hahn's clear, comfortable, and engaging style, Harley Hahn's Emacs Field Guide will surprise you: an engaging book to enjoy now, a comprehensive reference to treasure for years to come. What You Will Learn Special Emacs keys Emacs commands Buffers and windows Cursor, point, and region Kill/delete, move/copy, correcting, spell checking, and filling Searching, including regular expressions Emacs major modes and minor modes Customizing using your .emacs file Built-in tools, including Dired Games and diversions Who This Book Is For Programmers, students, and everyday users, who want an engaging and authoritative introduction to the complex and powerful Emacs working environment.
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ISBN
1484217020
9781484217023
1484217039
9781484217030
Note
Includes indexes.
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