graphical display, little curved arrows appear in the narrow spaces on
each side of the text area (the left and right "fringes"), to indicate
where a line has been continued. If you're using a text terminal, the
-continued line is indicated by a backslash ("\") on the rightmost
+continued line is indicated by a backslash ('\') on the rightmost
screen column.
>> Insert text until you reach the right margin, and keep on inserting.
>> Type <Return> to reinsert the Newline you deleted.
+The <Return> key is special, in that pressing it may do more than
+just insert a Newline character. Depending on the surrounding text,
+it may insert whitespace after the Newline character, so that when
+you start typing on the newly created line, the text lines up with
+that on the previous line. We call this behavior (where pressing a
+key does more than simply inserting the relevant character) "electric".
+
+>> Here is an example of <Return> being electric.
+ Type <Return> at the end of this line.
+
+You should see that after inserting the Newline, Emacs inserts spaces
+so that the cursor moves under the "T" of "Type".
+
Remember that most Emacs commands can be given a repeat count;
this includes text characters. Repeating a text character inserts
it several times.
C-k kills the line itself, and makes all the other lines move up. C-k
treats a numeric argument specially: it kills that many lines AND
their contents. This is not mere repetition. C-u 2 C-k kills two
-lines and their newlines; typing C-k twice would not do that.
+lines and their Newlines; typing C-k twice would not do that.
You can yank the killed text either at the same place where it was
killed, or at some other place in the text you are editing, or even in
back to the same Emacs session afterward. When Emacs is running on a
text terminal, C-z "suspends" Emacs; that is, it returns to the shell
but does not destroy the Emacs job. In the most common shells, you
-can resume Emacs with the `fg' command or with `%emacs'.
+can resume Emacs with the "fg" command or with "%emacs".
The time to use C-x C-c is when you are about to log out. It's also
the right thing to use to exit an Emacs invoked for a quick edit, such
you want to search for. <Return> terminates a search.
>> Now type C-s to start a search. SLOWLY, one letter at a time,
- type the word 'cursor', pausing after you type each
+ type the word "cursor", pausing after you type each
character to notice what happens to the cursor.
Now you have searched for "cursor", once.
>> Type C-s again, to search for the next occurrence of "cursor".
Did you see what happened? Emacs, in an incremental search, tries to
go to the occurrence of the string that you've typed out so far. To
-go to the next occurrence of 'cursor' just type C-s again. If no such
+go to the next occurrence of "cursor" just type C-s again. If no such
occurrence exists, Emacs beeps and tells you the search is currently
"failing". C-g would also terminate the search.
>> Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
C-h i Read included Manuals (a.k.a. Info). This command puts
- you into a special buffer called `*info*' where you
+ you into a special buffer called "*info*" where you
can read manuals for the packages installed on your system.
Type m emacs <Return> to read the Emacs manual.
If you have never before used Info, type ? and Emacs
This version of the tutorial is a part of GNU Emacs. It is copyrighted
and comes with permission to distribute copies on certain conditions:
- Copyright (C) 1985, 1996, 1998, 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation,
+ Copyright (C) 1985, 1996, 1998, 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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