4 This book will teach you
7 2. To customize Emacs to your specific needs.
8 3. Place Emacs in a modern context.
12 1. Teach you to program in Emacs lisp
13 2. Document third-party libraries which don't ship with Emacs or GNU
18 If you are new to Emacs then this book is for you. You don't have to
19 be a programmer to benefit from this book.
23 You need to be a touch typist to use Emacs efficiently.
27 The latest stable release of Emacs as on the day of writing is Emacs
30 You can download the pre-build binaries from [[http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/][GNU FTP Archives]]. If you
31 are on Windows, you can download the binaries from [[http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/][Windows
40 # centering text M-o M-s
42 # margins and justification
63 # counting lines, words etc
65 You can goto specific line with
67 |----------------------+---------|
70 |----------------------+---------|
71 | Goto a line | M-g M-g |
72 |----------------------+---------|
75 You can move around your buffer very quickly using the following key
78 |----------------------+------|
81 |----------------------+------|
82 | Line beginning | C-a |
84 |----------------------+------|
87 |----------------------+------|
88 | Scroll forward | C-v |
90 |----------------------+------|
92 You can move around your buffer very quickly using the following key
95 |----------------------+-------|
98 |----------------------+-------|
100 | Previous word | M-b |
101 |----------------------+-------|
102 | Sentence beginning | M-a |
103 | Sentence end | M-e |
104 |----------------------+-------|
105 | Next paragraph | M-} |
106 | Prev paragraph | M-{ |
107 |----------------------+-------|
108 | Next page | C-x ] |
109 | Prev page | C-x [ |
110 |----------------------+-------|
111 | Buffer beginning | M-< |
113 |----------------------+-------|
117 |----------------------+------|
120 |----------------------+------|
121 | Counting words | M-= |
122 |----------------------+------|
126 ** Dictionary and Thesaurus
128 * Install additional packages
134 You can submit a bug report with
137 M-x report-emacs-bug RET
142 The Emacs project has many [[https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group%3Demacs][mailing lists]].
144 You can browse the archives online
146 1. [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs][Emacs news archive]]
147 2. [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs][Emacs users archive]]
148 3. [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel][Emacs developers archive]]
149 4. [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs][Emacs bugs archive]]
150 5. [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-emacs-sources][Emacs sources archive]]
152 You may wish to subscribe to one or more of these mailing lists.
154 1. [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-emacs][Emacs news]]
155 2. [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs][Emacs users]]
156 3. [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel][Emacs developers]]
157 4. [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs][Emacs bugs]]
158 5. [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources][Emacs sources]]
162 See [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Emacs project page]] for more information.
164 [[http://www.emacswiki.org/][Emacswiki]]
166 IRC: #emacs @ irc.freenode.net
168 * Contributing to Emacs
170 Emacs sources are maintained using Bazaar version control system. You
171 can obtain the version controlled source tree with
174 bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
177 You can also browse the source repository for one-off purposes using
178 the following URLs: [[http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/files][Bzr Loggerhead]] or [[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/][Cgit web interface]].
180 If you are a Git user, you can checkout the source tree using git as
184 git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
187 See [[http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit][for more information on using git]].
189 * Building Emacs from sources
191 If you are a developer or a user who is interested in testing out
192 Emacs trunk see [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs][instructions at Emacswiki]].
195 apt-get install build-essential
196 apt-get build-dep emacs