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efaq: Basic editing

 
 3.1 I’m just starting Emacs; how do I do basic editing?
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 Type ‘C-h t’ to invoke the self-paced tutorial.  Just typing ‘C-h’
 enters the help system.  Starting with Emacs 22, the tutorial is
 available in many foreign languages such as French, German, Japanese,
 Russian, etc.  Use ‘M-x help-with-tutorial-spec-language <RET>’ to
 choose your language and start the tutorial.
 
    Your system administrator may have changed ‘C-h’ to act like <DEL> to
 deal with local keyboards.  You can use ‘M-x help-for-help’ instead to
 invoke help.  To discover what key (if any) invokes help on your system,
 type ‘M-x where-is <RET> help-for-help <RET>’.  This will print a
 comma-separated list of key sequences in the echo area.  Ignore the last
 character in each key sequence listed.  Each of the resulting key
 sequences (e.g., <F1> is common) invokes help.
 
    Emacs help works best if it is invoked by a single key whose value
 should be stored in the variable ‘help-char’.
 
    Some Emacs slides and tutorials can be found at
 <http://web.psung.name/emacs/>.
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