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The Emacs Editor

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  • 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.
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