Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!bbn!bbn.com!mesard From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Beginner EMACS Message-ID: <46934@bbn.COM> Date: 14 Oct 89 22:39:15 GMT References: <1030@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <2528@hub.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: mesard@BBN.COM (Wayne Mesard) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 39 fender@cornu.ucsb.edu writes: >For the time you invest into emacs, you will get many >The easiest way is to begin with tutorial. After >starting emacs, press "Ctrl-h t" and this will begin the tutorial. [and more excellent tips] To which I'd add a pointer to two more Help commands. Ctrl-h A. This is command-apropos. It will list every command containing a particular phrase. So, for example, Ctrl-h A sort will list all the commands having to do with sorting. Ctrl-h W will tell you what key a particular command is bound to (if any). Ctrl-h C. This is describe-key-briefly. So to find out what Esc-k does, type Ctrl-h C k Maybe it's just me, but my fingers know a lot more about Emacs than my [conscious] mind does. And the way that knowledge got there is through liberal use of the Ctrl-h help commands and by keeping the Emacs manual close at hand. Also, don't forget the things that make GNU Emacs fun (and make its opponents groan). Play with: Esc-X hanoi Esc-X yow Esc-X doctor among others. (Use Ctrl-h D to find out more about these.) -- unsigned *Wayne_Mesard(); "Are you for UNIX or are you against UNIX? Mesard@BBN.COM People know the answers even if they don't BBN, Cambridge, MA understand the question." -Bill Joy