How Emacs Evolves to Suit Your Needs p. 1 How Emacs Differs from Other Software p. 3 Software and the User p. 4 Emacs Vocabulary and Conventions p.

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1 Introduction p. xxix How Emacs Evolves to Suit Your Needs p. 1 How Emacs Differs from Other Software p. 3 Software and the User p. 4 Emacs Vocabulary and Conventions p. 7 Key Conventions p. 9 Emacs and Emacs-Lisp p. 11 How Emacs Evolves to Suit Your Needs p. 12 Conclusion p. 12 Acquiring and Installing Emacs p. 13 Source or Precompiled? p. 14 Binary Distributions of Emacs for Linux p. 16 Installation from the CD-ROM p. 18 The CD-ROM Binaries p. 19 Installation with Package Tools p. 19 Binary Problems p. 21 Source from the CD-ROM p. 22 Compiling XEmacs with GTK p. 26 XEmacs Packages p. 27 Additional Packages on the CD-ROM p. 28 Conclusion p. 30 Overview of Basic Emacs Skills p. 31 Two Basic Key Combinations p. 32 The Modeline and Minibuffer p. 33 Using the Help Keys p. 34 Loading and Saving Files p. 35 Tab Completion p. 36 Moving around in a Buffer p. 37 Buffers and the Buffer List p. 40 Regions, the Mark, and Point p. 41 Cutting, Copying, and Pasting p. 43 Searching p. 45 Regular Expressions in Searches p. 50 Formatting Commands p. 53 Windows, Frames, and Buffers p. 55 Shell Commands p. 56 Emacs As an Editing Server p. 58 Conclusion p. 60 Using the Built-in Customization Tools p. 61 Introduction to Customize p. 62 Reasons to Use Customize p. 62

2 How Customize Works p. 63 Using Customize p. 65 Customizing Faces p. 68 Emacs and X Resource Files p. 71 Limitations of Customize p. 71 Introducing Emacs Macros p. 71 Conclusion p. 76 Emacs-Lisp As an Entry Point to Configuration p. 77 The Origin of Lisp p. 78 How Emacs-Lisp Differs p. 79 A Mixture of C and Lisp p. 80 Why Not Perl or Java? p. 81 Conclusion p. 82 Learning the Vocabulary of Emacs-Lisp p. 83 Evaluation p. 84 Basic Emacs-Lisp Expressions p. 85 Functions p. 87 Variables p. 90 List Operations p. 92 How Parentheses Are Used p. 95 The Scratch Buffer p. 97 Common Errors p. 97 Conclusion p. 97 A Sample Emacs-Lisp File p. 99 New Lisp Features in Clipper p. 100 The Clipper.el File p. 104 Conclusion p. 119 Byte-Compiling for Efficiency p. 121 The Byte-Compiler p. 122 How to Run It p. 124 Interpreting Error Messages p. 126 Problems with Different Emacs Versions p. 128 Edits That Seem to Have No Effect p. 129 Conclusion p. 130 Learning to Configure Emacs with Lisp p. 131 First Steps in Customization: Your.emacs File p. 133 This File Makes Your Editor Unique p. 134 Building Blocks of the File p. 134 Troubleshooting the File p. 135 Backing up Your.emacs File p. 137 Byte-Compiling.emacs p. 137

3 Splitting Your.emacs File p. 138 Loading the New Files p. 139 A Little Reassurance p. 140 Trying out the Sample Files p. 140 Copying Files from the CD-ROM p. 141 Sample.emacs Files p. 141 XEmacs, GNU Emacs, and Their.emacs Files p. 143 Conclusion p. 144 Changing Default Behavior p. 145 Puzzling Defaults p. 146 Your Own Keybindings p. 160 The Title Bar p. 164 Conclusion p. 165 Modes, Major and Minor p. 167 Introducing Modes p. 168 What a Mode Does for You p. 169 Minor Modes p. 172 Different Ways to Load a Mode p. 174 Deriving One Mode from Another p. 177 Modifying a Mode p. 179 Conclusion p. 180 Exploring Emacs Packages p. 181 Introduction to Packages p. 183 The Rationale behind Packaging p. 184 GNU Emacs Packages p. 185 The XEmacs Packaging System p. 189 Installation Methods p. 191 Conclusion p. 195 Text Processing Packages p. 197 Text Processing and Word Processing p. 198 When a Word Processor Is More Appropriate p. 199 LaTeX, HTML, and Lout As Alternatives p. 200 HTML Modes p. 201 LaTeX or Lout? p. 212 LaTeX p. 213 Lout p. 220 Conclusion p. 224 Built-in Convenience Packages p. 225 Abbreviation and Expansion p. 226 Bookmarks p. 229 Dired, the Emacs File Manager p. 233

4 Differences between Files p. 236 Spell Checking with ispell p. 241 Running a Shell in Emacs p. 245 Outline Mode p. 248 The Calendar and the Diary p. 253 Conclusion p. 256 External Convenience Packages p. 257 Clipper: A Persistent Clipboard p. 258 Notes Mode p. 259 Folding Mode p. 266 An Interface to Online Dictionaries p. 270 Emacs CD and MP3 Players p. 273 An ABC Mode for Musicians p. 275 The Remembrance Agent p. 276 Conclusion p. 282 Packages That Make Programming Easier p. 283 A Mode for Nearly Every Language p. 284 Dealing with Comments p. 285 A Mode for C, C++, and Java p. 286 JDE p. 293 CPerl-mode p. 300 Python Mode p. 303 Searching in Multiple Source Files p. 307 Emacs As an IDE p. 311 Conclusion p. 317 Different Approaches to p. 319 First, a Warning p. 320 Writing in Emacs p. 321 Rmail for Basic p. 323 The VM Mailer p. 328 Emacs As an Editor for Other Mail Programs p. 336 Gnus as a Mail Client p. 340 Conclusion p. 342 Gnus Configuration and Usage p. 343 Starting Gnus for the First Time p. 344 The Five Gnus Buffers p. 348 Viewing Files and Directories with Gnus p. 362 Gnus as an Client p. 365 Offline News Reading with the Gnus Agent p. 371 Miscellaneous Gnus Settings p. 375 Gnus, XEmacs, and GNU Emacs 21 p. 377

5 Conclusion p. 378 Editing Files on a Remote Machine p. 379 ftp p. 380 Requesting a Remote File p. 381 netrc and Passwords p. 382 Binary and ASCII Transfers p. 383 Host Types p. 385 Hash in the Modeline p. 386 Sources of Further Information p. 386 Conclusion p. 387 Web-Browsing with W3 p. 389 Installing and Setting up W3 p. 390 Images, XEmacs, and GNU Emacs p. 391 Basic Commands p. 393 Stylesheets p. 395 Security p. 398 Masquerading p. 402 Downloading Files p. 402 Asynchronous Operation p. 403 Caching Web Sites p. 403 Conclusion p. 405 Emacs Games p. 407 Text-Based Games and Hacks p. 408 Xmine p. 420 The Gamegrid Games p. 422 Conclusion p. 426 Dealing with Problems p. 427 Coping with Emacs Problems p. 429 Undo p. 430 The Message Log p. 431 Network Problems p. 433 Automatic File Backup p. 434 What to Do if You Find a Bug p. 436 Lisp Debugging Tools p. 440 Conclusion p. 444 Help Resources p. 445 The Emacs Help System p. 446 The Info Help System p. 454 Finding Help on the Net p. 460 Conclusion p. 464 Appendixes p. 465

6 Key Command Reference p. 467 Essential Commands p. 468 Movement Commands p. 468 Windows, Frames, and Buffers p. 469 Selecting a Region p. 470 Cut, Copy, and Paste p. 470 Transposition and Case p. 470 Searching and Replacing p. 471 Spelling Correction p. 472 The Dired File Manager p. 472 Word Wrapping p. 473 Keyboard Macros p. 473 Shell Commands p. 473 Rectangles and Registers p. 474 Bookmarks p. 474 Abbreviations p. 474 Sending Mail p. 475 Mouse Commands p. 475 The Help Keys p. 476 Quitting Emacs p. 477 Minibuffer Commands p. 479 Miscellaneous Mode Commands p. 483 Emacs and Internationalization p. 485 Setting Up p. 486 The Mule Project p. 489 Glossary p. 491 Index p. 495 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.