Basic Editing Commands
We now give the basics of how to enter text, make corrections, and save the text in a file. If this material is new to you, you might learn it more easily by running the Emacs learn-by-doing tutorial. To use the tutorial, run Emacs and type Control-h t (help-with-tutorial).
To clear the screen and redisplay, type C-l (recenter).
- Inserting Text: Inserting text by simply typing it.
- Moving Point: How to move the cursor to the place where you want to change something.
- Erasing: Deleting and killing text.
- Undo: Undoing recent changes in the text.
- Files: Visiting, creating, and saving files.
- Help: Asking what a character does.
- Blank Lines: Commands to make or delete blank lines.
- Continuation Lines: Lines too wide for the screen.
- Position Info: What page, line, row, or column is point on?
- Arguments: Numeric arguments for repeating a command.
- Repeating: A short-cut for repeating the previous command.
