updated for Emacs version @value{EMACSVER}.
Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
-1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
Important Text-Changing Commands
* Mark:: The mark: how to delimit a ``region'' of text.
-* Killing:: Killing text.
-* Yanking:: Recovering killed text. Moving text.
+* Killing:: Killing (cutting) text.
+* Yanking:: Recovering killed text. Moving text. (Pasting.)
* Accumulating Text:: Other ways of copying text.
* Rectangles:: Operating on the text inside a rectangle on the screen.
* Registers:: Saving a text string or a location in the buffer.
* Buffers:: Multiple buffers; editing several files at once.
* Windows:: Viewing two pieces of text at once.
* Frames:: Running the same Emacs session in multiple X windows.
-* International:: Using non-ASCII character sets (the MULE features).
+* International:: Using non-@acronym{ASCII} character sets (the MULE features).
Advanced Features
* Major Modes:: Text mode vs. Lisp mode vs. C mode ...
* Hungry Delete:: A more powerful DEL command.
* Other C Commands:: Filling comments, viewing expansion of macros,
and other neat features.
-* Comments in C:: Options for customizing comment style.
Fortran Mode
* Adding to Diary:: Commands to create diary entries.
* Special Diary Entries:: Anniversaries, blocks of dates, cyclic entries, etc.
-@sc{Gnus}
+Gnus
* Buffers of Gnus:: The group, summary, and article buffers.
* Gnus Startup:: What you should know about starting Gnus.
* Borders X:: Internal and external borders, under X.
* Title X:: Specifying the initial frame's title.
* Icons X:: Choosing what sort of icon to use, under X.
+* Misc X:: Other display options.
X Resources
manual. @xref{MS-DOS}, for information about using Emacs on MS-DOS.
@end iftex
-@node Distrib, Copying, Top, Top
+@node Distrib, Intro, Top, Top
@unnumbered Distribution
GNU Emacs is @dfn{free software}; this means that everyone is free to
General Public License. In other words, the program must be free for you
when you get it, not just free for the manufacturer.
-You can also order copies of GNU Emacs from the Free Software Foundation
-on CD-ROM@. This is a convenient and reliable way to get a copy; it is
-also a good way to help fund our work. (The Foundation has always
+You can also order copies of GNU Emacs from the Free Software
+Foundation. This is a convenient and reliable way to get a copy; it
+is also a good way to help fund our work. (The Foundation has always
received most of its funds in this way.) An order form is included in
the file @file{etc/ORDERS} in the Emacs distribution, and on our web
site in @url{http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html}. For further
occasionally, or subscribing to periodic updates.
@iftex
+@node Acknowledgments, Intro, Distrib, Top
+@unnumberedsec Acknowledgments
+
Contributors to GNU Emacs include Per Abrahamsen, Jay K. Adams, Joe
Arceneaux, Boaz Ben-Zvi, Jim Blandy, Terrence Brannon, Frank Bresz,
Peter Breton, Kevin Broadey, Vincent Broman, David M. Brown, Bill
Ingebrigtsen, Andrew Innes, Michael K. Johnson, Kyle Jones, Tomoji
Kagatani, Brewster Kahle, David Kaufman, Henry Kautz, Howard Kaye,
Michael Kifer, Richard King, Larry K. Kolodney, Robert Krawitz,
-Sebastian Kremer, Geoff Kuenning, David K@aa gedal, Daniel LaLiberte,
+Sebastian Kremer, Geoff Kuenning, David K@aa{}gedal, Daniel LaLiberte,
Aaron Larson, James R. Larus, Frederic Lepied, Lars Lindberg, Eric
Ludlam, Neil M. Mager, Ken Manheimer, Bill Mann, Brian Marick, Simon
Marshall, Bengt Martensson, Charlie Martin, Thomas May, Roland McGrath,
Reto Zimmermann, and Neal Ziring.
@end iftex
-@node Copying, GNU Free Documentation License, Distrib, Top
-@unnumbered GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
+@node Intro, Glossary, Distrib, Top
+@unnumbered Introduction
+
+ You are reading about GNU Emacs, the GNU incarnation of the advanced,
+self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time display editor Emacs.
+(The `G' in `GNU' is not silent.)
+
+ We say that Emacs is a @dfn{display} editor because normally the text
+being edited is visible on the screen and is updated automatically as you
+type your commands. @xref{Screen,Display}.
+
+ We call it a @dfn{real-time} editor because the display is updated very
+frequently, usually after each character or pair of characters you
+type. This minimizes the amount of information you must keep in your
+head as you edit. @xref{Basic,Real-time,Basic Editing}.
+
+ We call Emacs advanced because it provides facilities that go beyond
+simple insertion and deletion: controlling subprocesses; automatic
+indentation of programs; viewing two or more files at once; editing
+formatted text; and dealing in terms of characters, words, lines,
+sentences, paragraphs, and pages, as well as expressions and comments in
+several different programming languages.
+
+ @dfn{Self-documenting} means that at any time you can type a special
+character, @kbd{Control-h}, to find out what your options are. You can
+also use it to find out what any command does, or to find all the commands
+that pertain to a topic. @xref{Help}.
+
+ @dfn{Customizable} means that you can change the definitions of Emacs
+commands in little ways. For example, if you use a programming language in
+which comments start with @samp{<**} and end with @samp{**>}, you can tell
+the Emacs comment manipulation commands to use those strings
+(@pxref{Comments}). Another sort of customization is rearrangement of the
+command set. For example, if you prefer the four basic cursor motion
+commands (up, down, left and right) on keys in a diamond pattern on the
+keyboard, you can rebind the keys that way. @xref{Customization}.
+
+ @dfn{Extensible} means that you can go beyond simple customization and
+write entirely new commands, programs in the Lisp language to be run by
+Emacs's own Lisp interpreter. Emacs is an ``on-line extensible''
+system, which means that it is divided into many functions that call
+each other, any of which can be redefined in the middle of an editing
+session. Almost any part of Emacs can be replaced without making a
+separate copy of all of Emacs. Most of the editing commands of Emacs
+are written in Lisp; the few exceptions could have been written
+in Lisp but are written in C for efficiency. Although only a programmer
+can write an extension, anybody can use it afterward. If you want to
+learn Emacs Lisp programming, we recommend the @cite{Introduction to
+Emacs Lisp} by Robert J. Chassell, also published by the Free Software
+Foundation.
+
+ When run under the X Window System, Emacs provides its own menus and
+convenient bindings to mouse buttons. But Emacs can provide many of the
+benefits of a window system on a text-only terminal. For instance, you
+can look at or edit several files at once, move text between files, and
+edit files while running shell commands.
+
+@include screen.texi
+@include commands.texi
+@include entering.texi
+@include basic.texi
+@include mini.texi
+@include m-x.texi
+@include help.texi
+@include mark.texi
+@include killing.texi
+@include regs.texi
+@include display.texi
+@include search.texi
+@include fixit.texi
+@include kmacro.texi
+@include files.texi
+@include buffers.texi
+@include windows.texi
+@include frames.texi
+@include mule.texi
+@include major.texi
+@include indent.texi
+@include text.texi
+@include programs.texi
+@include building.texi
+@include maintaining.texi
+@include abbrevs.texi
+@include picture.texi
+@include sending.texi
+@include rmail.texi
+@include dired.texi
+@include calendar.texi
+@include misc.texi
+@include custom.texi
+@include trouble.texi
+
+@node Copying, GNU Free Documentation License, Service, Top
+@appendix GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
@center Version 2, June 1991
@display
Public License instead of this License.
@include doclicense.texi
-
-@node Intro, Glossary, GNU Free Documentation License, Top
-@unnumbered Introduction
-
- You are reading about GNU Emacs, the GNU incarnation of the advanced,
-self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time display editor Emacs.
-(The `G' in `GNU' is not silent.)
-
- We say that Emacs is a @dfn{display} editor because normally the text
-being edited is visible on the screen and is updated automatically as you
-type your commands. @xref{Screen,Display}.
-
- We call it a @dfn{real-time} editor because the display is updated very
-frequently, usually after each character or pair of characters you
-type. This minimizes the amount of information you must keep in your
-head as you edit. @xref{Basic,Real-time,Basic Editing}.
-
- We call Emacs advanced because it provides facilities that go beyond
-simple insertion and deletion: controlling subprocesses; automatic
-indentation of programs; viewing two or more files at once; editing
-formatted text; and dealing in terms of characters, words, lines,
-sentences, paragraphs, and pages, as well as expressions and comments in
-several different programming languages.
-
- @dfn{Self-documenting} means that at any time you can type a special
-character, @kbd{Control-h}, to find out what your options are. You can
-also use it to find out what any command does, or to find all the commands
-that pertain to a topic. @xref{Help}.
-
- @dfn{Customizable} means that you can change the definitions of Emacs
-commands in little ways. For example, if you use a programming language in
-which comments start with @samp{<**} and end with @samp{**>}, you can tell
-the Emacs comment manipulation commands to use those strings
-(@pxref{Comments}). Another sort of customization is rearrangement of the
-command set. For example, if you prefer the four basic cursor motion
-commands (up, down, left and right) on keys in a diamond pattern on the
-keyboard, you can rebind the keys that way. @xref{Customization}.
-
- @dfn{Extensible} means that you can go beyond simple customization and
-write entirely new commands, programs in the Lisp language to be run by
-Emacs's own Lisp interpreter. Emacs is an ``on-line extensible''
-system, which means that it is divided into many functions that call
-each other, any of which can be redefined in the middle of an editing
-session. Almost any part of Emacs can be replaced without making a
-separate copy of all of Emacs. Most of the editing commands of Emacs
-are written in Lisp; the few exceptions could have been written
-in Lisp but are written in C for efficiency. Although only a programmer
-can write an extension, anybody can use it afterward. If you want to
-learn Emacs Lisp programming, we recommend the @cite{Introduction to
-Emacs Lisp} by Robert J. Chassell, also published by the Free Software
-Foundation.
-
- When run under the X Window System, Emacs provides its own menus and
-convenient bindings to mouse buttons. But Emacs can provide many of the
-benefits of a window system on a text-only terminal. For instance, you
-can look at or edit several files at once, move text between files, and
-edit files while running shell commands.
-
-@include screen.texi
-@include commands.texi
-@include entering.texi
-@include basic.texi
-@include mini.texi
-@include m-x.texi
-@include help.texi
-@include mark.texi
-@include killing.texi
-@include regs.texi
-@include display.texi
-@include search.texi
-@include fixit.texi
-@include kmacro.texi
-@include files.texi
-@include buffers.texi
-@include windows.texi
-@include frames.texi
-@include mule.texi
-@include major.texi
-@include indent.texi
-@include text.texi
-@include programs.texi
-@include building.texi
-@include maintaining.texi
-@include abbrevs.texi
-@include picture.texi
-@include sending.texi
-@include rmail.texi
-@include dired.texi
-@include calendar.texi
-@include misc.texi
-@include custom.texi
-@include trouble.texi
@include cmdargs.texi
@include xresources.texi
@include msdog.texi
@include gnu.texi
@include glossary.texi
-@ifinfo
+@ifnottex
@include ack.texi
-@end ifinfo
+@end ifnottex
@c The Option Index is produced only in the on-line version,
@c because the index entries related to command-line options