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  91       <h1 class="title"></h1>
  92       <div id="table-of-contents">
  93         <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
  94         <div id="text-table-of-contents">
  95           <ul>
  96             <li><a href="#sec-1">1. Goals and non-Goals</a></li>
  97             <li><a href="#sec-2">2. Audience</a></li>
  98             <li><a href="#sec-3">3. Installing Emacs</a></li>
  99             <li><a href="#sec-4">4. Text editing</a></li>
 100             <li><a href="#sec-5">5. Reporting bugs</a></li>
 101             <li><a href="#sec-6">6. Emacs Community</a></li>
 102             <li><a href="#sec-7">7. Contributing to Emacs</a></li>
 103             <li><a href="#sec-8">8. Building Emacs from sources</a></li>
 104           </ul>
 105         </div>
 106       </div>
 107       <div id="outline-container-1" class="outline-2">
 108         <h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Goals and non-Goals</h2>
 109         <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1">
 110           <p>
 111             This book will teach you
 112           </p>
 113
 114           <ol class="org-ol">
 115             <li>To use Emacs.
 116             </li>
 117             <li>To customize Emacs to your specific needs.
 118             </li>
 119           </ol>
 120
 121           <p>
 122             This book will <b>not</b>
 123           </p>
 124
 125           <ol class="org-ol">
 126             <li>Teach you to program in Emacs lisp
 127             </li>
 128             <li>Document third-party libraries which don't ship with Emacs or GNU
 129               ELPA.
 130             </li>
 131           </ol>
 132         </div>
 133       </div>
 134       <div id="outline-container-2" class="outline-2">
 135         <h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Audience</h2>
 136         <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
 137           <p>
 138             New Emacs users who are also non-programmers.
 139           </p>
 140         </div>
 141       </div>
 142       <div id="outline-container-3" class="outline-2">
 143         <h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Installing Emacs</h2>
 144         <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
 145           <p>
 146             The latest stable release of Emacs as on the day of writing is Emacs
 147             24.3.
 148           </p>
 149
 150           <p>
 151             You can download the pre-build binaries from <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/">GNU FTP Archives</a>.  If you
 152             are on Windows, you can download the binaries from <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/">Windows
 153               subdirectory</a>.
 154           </p>
 155         </div>
 156       </div>
 157       <div id="outline-container-4" class="outline-2">
 158         <h2 id="sec-4"><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Text editing</h2>
 159       </div>
 160
 161       <div id="outline-container-5" class="outline-2">
 162         <h2 id="sec-5"><span class="section-number-2">5</span> Reporting bugs</h2>
 163         <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-5">
 164           <p>
 165             You can submit a bug report with
 166           </p>
 167
 168           <pre class="example">
 169             M-x report-emacs-bug RET
 170           </pre>
 171         </div>
 172       </div>
 173       <div id="outline-container-6" class="outline-2">
 174         <h2 id="sec-6"><span class="section-number-2">6</span> Emacs Community</h2>
 175         <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-6">
 176           <p>
 177             The Emacs project has many <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs">mailing lists</a>.  You may wish to subscribe
 178             to one or more of these mailing lists.
 179           </p>
 180
 181           <ol class="org-ol">
 182             <li><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-emacs">Emacs news</a>
 183             </li>
 184             <li><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs">Emacs users</a>
 185             </li>
 186             <li><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel">Emacs developers</a>
 187             </li>
 188             <li><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs">Emacs bugs</a>
 189             </li>
 190             <li><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources">Emacs sources</a>
 191             </li>
 192           </ol>
 193
 194           <p>
 195             See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs project page</a> for more information.
 196           </p>
 197
 198           <p>
 199             <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/">Emacswiki</a>
 200           </p>
 201
 202           <p>
 203             IRC: #emacs @ irc.freenode.net
 204           </p>
 205         </div>
 206       </div>
 207       <div id="outline-container-7" class="outline-2">
 208         <h2 id="sec-7"><span class="section-number-2">7</span> Contributing to Emacs</h2>
 209         <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-7">
 210           <p>
 211             Emacs sources are maintained using Bazaar version control system.  You
 212             can obtain the version controlled source tree with
 213           </p>
 214
 215           <pre class="example">
 216             bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
 217           </pre>
 218
 219           <p>
 220             You can also browse the source repository for one-off purposes using
 221             the following URLs: <a href="http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/files">Bzr Loggerhead</a> or <a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/">Cgit web interface</a>.
 222           </p>
 223
 224           <p>
 225             If you are a Git user, you can checkout the source tree using git as
 226             follows
 227           </p>
 228
 229           <pre class="example">
 230             git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
 231           </pre>
 232
 233           <p>
 234             See <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit">for more information on using git</a>.
 235           </p>
 236         </div>
 237       </div>
 238       <div id="outline-container-8" class="outline-2">
 239         <h2 id="sec-8"><span class="section-number-2">8</span> Building Emacs from sources</h2>
 240         <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-8">
 241           <p>
 242             If you are a developer or a user who is interested in testing out
 243             Emacs trunk see <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs">instructions at Emacswiki</a>.
 244           </p>
 245         </div>
 246       </div>
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 248     <div id="postamble" class="status">
 249       <p class="author">Author: Jambunathan K</p>
 250       <p class="date">Created: 2013-03-17 Sun 20:39</p>
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