Emacs Beginner's HOWTO

Jeremy D. Zawodny: Jeremy@Zawodny.com

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Copyright
• 1.2 Audience and Intent
• 1.3 What is Emacs?

2. Running Emacs

• 2.1 Starting & Quitting Emacs
• 2.2 Some Terminology
• 2.3 Keyboard Basics
• 2.4 Tutorial, Help, & Info

3. Emacs Modes

• 3.1 Major vs. Minor Modes
• 3.2 Programming Modes
• 3.3 Authoring
• 3.4 Other Modes

4. Customizing Emacs

• 4.1 Temporary Customization
• 4.2 Using a .emacs File
• 4.3 The Customize Package
• 4.4 X Windows Display

5. Popular Packages

• 5.1 VM (Mail)
• 5.2 Gnus (Mail and News)
• 5.3 BBDB (A rolodex)
• 5.4 AucTeX (another TeX mode)

6. Other Resources

• 6.1 Books
• 6.2 Web Sites
• 6.3 Newsgroups
• 6.4 Mailing Lists
• 6.5 The Emacs Lisp Archive

7. Credits