An introduction to the GNU Emacs editor, one of the most widely used and powerful editors available under UNIX. Provides a solid introduction to basic editing, a look at several important "editing modes" (special Emacs features for editing specific types of documents), and a brief intro- duction to customization and Emacs LISP programming. The book is aimed at new Emacs users, whether or not they are programmers.
- Title:
- Learning GNU Emacs
- By:
- Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Formats:
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- Print Release:
- October 1991
- Pages:
- 442
- Print ISBN:
- 978-0-937175-84-2
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-937175-84-6
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