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 7 Basic Editing Commands
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 Here we explain the basics of how to enter text, make corrections, and
 save the text in a file.  If this material is new to you, we suggest you
 first run the Emacs learn-by-doing tutorial, by typing ‘C-h t’
 (‘help-with-tutorial’).
 

Menu

 
 
· Inserting Text      Inserting text by simply typing it.
· Moving Point        Moving the cursor to the place where you want to
                           change something.
· Erasing             Deleting and killing text.
· Basic Undo          Undoing recent changes in the text.
· Files Basic Files.   Visiting, creating, and saving files.
· Help Basic Help.     Asking what a character does.
· Blank Lines         Making and deleting blank lines.
· Continuation Lines  How Emacs displays lines too wide for the screen.
· Position Info       What line, row, or column is point on?
· Arguments           Numeric arguments for repeating a command N times.
· Repeating           Repeating the previous command quickly.
 

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