The Emacs Editor

By Juergen Haas, About.com Guide

Language Help: Help relating to international language support.

Misc Help: Other help commands.

The Mark and the Region

Setting Mark: Commands to set the mark.

Transient Mark: How to make Emacs highlight the region-- when there is one.

Using Region: Summary of ways to operate on contents of the region.

Marking Objects: Commands to put region around textual units.

Mark Ring: Previous mark positions saved so you can go back there.

Global Mark Ring: Previous mark positions in various buffers.

Deletion and Killing

Deletion: Commands for deleting small amounts of text and blank areas.

Killing by Lines: How to kill entire lines of text at one time.

Other Kill Commands: Commands to kill large regions of text and syntactic units such as words and sentences.

Yanking

Kill Ring: Where killed text is stored. Basic yanking.

Appending Kills: Several kills in a row all yank together.

Earlier Kills: Yanking something killed some time ago.

Registers

RegPos: Saving positions in registers.

RegText: Saving text in registers.

RegRect: Saving rectangles in registers.

RegConfig: Saving window configurations in registers.

RegFiles: File names in registers.

Bookmarks: Bookmarks are like registers, but persistent.

Controlling the Display

Scrolling: Moving text up and down in a window.

Horizontal Scrolling: Moving text left and right in a window.

Follow Mode: Follow mode lets two windows scroll as one.

Selective Display: Hiding lines with lots of indentation.

Optional Mode Line: Optional mode line display features.