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 25 Commands for Human Languages
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 This chapter describes Emacs commands that act on “text”, by which we
 mean sequences of characters in a human language (as opposed to, say, a
 computer programming language).  These commands act in ways that take
 into account the syntactic and stylistic conventions of human languages:
 conventions involving words, sentences, paragraphs, and capital letters.
 There are also commands for “filling”, which means rearranging the lines
 of a paragraph to be approximately equal in length.  These commands,
 while intended primarily for editing text, are also often useful for
 editing programs.
 
    Emacs has several major modes for editing human-language text.  If
 the file contains ordinary text, use Text mode, which customizes Emacs
 in small ways for the syntactic conventions of text.  Outline mode
 provides special commands for operating on text with an outline
 structure.  Org mode extends Outline mode and turn Emacs into a
 full-fledged organizer: you can manage TODO lists, store notes and
 publish them in many formats.
 
    Emacs has other major modes for text which contains embedded
DONTPRINTYET  commands, such as TeX and LaTeX (TeX Mode); HTML and SGML (*noteDONTPRINTYET  commands, such as TeX and LaTeX (TeX Mode); HTML and SGML (
 HTML Mode); XML (The nXML Mode Manual (nxml-mode)Top.); and
 Groff and Nroff (Nroff Mode).
 
    If you need to edit ASCII art pictures made out of text characters,
 use Picture mode, a special major mode for editing such pictures.  
 Picture Mode.
 
    The automatic typing features may be useful when writing text.  
 The Autotype Manual (autotype)Top.
 

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· Words               Moving over and killing words.
· Sentences           Moving over and killing sentences.
· Paragraphs          Moving over paragraphs.
· Pages               Moving over pages.
· Quotation Marks     Inserting quotation marks.
· Filling             Filling or justifying text.
· Case                Changing the case of text.
· Text Mode           The major modes for editing text files.
· Outline Mode        Editing outlines.
· Org Mode            The Emacs organizer.
· TeX Mode            Editing TeX and LaTeX files.
· HTML Mode           Editing HTML and SGML files.
· Nroff Mode          Editing input to the nroff formatter.
· Enriched Text       Editing text enriched with fonts, colors, etc.
· Text Based Tables   Commands for editing text-based tables.
· Two-Column          Splitting text columns into separate windows.
 

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