Preface; Why Read This Book?; Which Emacs Is Which?; What's New in This Edition?; GNU Emacs and the Free Software Foundation; An Approach to Learning Emacs; What We Haven't Included; The Meta Key; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Emacs Basics; 1.1 Introducing Emacs!; 1.2 Understanding Files and Buffers; 1.3 A Word About Modes; 1.4 Starting Emacs; 1.5 About the Emacs Display; 1.6 Emacs Commands; 1.7 Opening a File; 1.

8 Saving Files; 1.9 Leaving Emacs; 1.10 Getting Help; 1.11 Summary;Chapter 2: Editing; 2.1 Moving the Cursor; 2.2 Deleting Text; 2.3 Marking Text to Delete, Move, or Copy; 2.4 Emacs and the Clipboard; 2.

5 Editing Tricks and Shortcuts; 2.6 Canceling Commands and Undoing Changes; 2.7 Making Emacs Work the Way You Want;Chapter 3: Search and Replace; 3.1 Different Kinds of Searches; 3.2 Search and Replace; 3.3 Checking Spelling Using Ispell; 3.4 Word Abbreviations;Chapter 4: Using Buffers, Windows, and Frames; 4.1 Understanding Buffers, Windows, and Frames; 4.

2 Working with Multiple Buffers; 4.3 Working with Windows; 4.4 Working with Frames; 4.5 More About Buffers; 4.6 More About Windows; 4.7 Holding Your Place with Bookmarks;Chapter 5: Emacs as a Work Environment; 5.1 Executing Commands in Shell Buffers; 5.2 Using Dired, the Directory Editor; 5.

3 Printing from Emacs; 5.4 Reading Manpages in Emacs; 5.5 Using Time Management Tools;Chapter 6: Writing Macros; 6.1 Defining a Macro; 6.2 Tips for Creating Good Macros; 6.3 A More Complicated Macro Example; 6.4 Editing a Macro; 6.5 The Macro Ring; 6.

6 Binding Your Macro to a Key; 6.7 Naming, Saving, and Executing Your Macros; 6.8 Building More Complicated Macros; 6.9 Executing Macros on a Region; 6.10 Beyond Macros;Chapter 7: Simple Text Formatting and Specialized Editing; 7.1 Using Tabs; 7.2 Indenting Text; 7.3 Centering Text; 7.

4 Using Outline Mode; 7.5 Rectangle Editing; 7.6 Making Simple Drawings;Chapter 8: Markup Language Support; 8.1 Comments; 8.2 Font-Lock Mode; 8.3 Writing HTML; 8.4 Writing XML; 8.5 Marking up Text for TEX and LATEX;Chapter 9: Computer Language Support; 9.

1 Emacs as an IDE; 9.2 Writing Code; 9.3 C and C++ Support; 9.4 Java Support; 9.5 The Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE); 9.6 Perl Support; 9.7 SQL Support; 9.8 The Lisp Modes;Chapter 10: Customizing Emacs; 10.

1 Using Custom; 10.2 Modifying the .emacs File Directly; 10.3 Modifying Fonts and Colors; 10.4 Customizing Your Key Bindings; 10.5 Setting Emacs Variables; 10.6 Finding Emacs Lisp Packages; 10.7 Starting Modes via Auto-Mode Customization; 10.

8 Making Emacs Work the Way You Think It Should;Chapter 11: Emacs Lisp Programming; 11.1 Introduction to Lisp; 11.2 Lisp Primitive Functions; 11.3 Useful Built-in Emacs Functions; 11.4 Building an Automatic Template System; 11.5 Programming a Major Mode; 11.6 Customizing Existing Modes; 11.7 Building Your Own Lisp Library;Chapter 12: Version Control; 12.

1 The Uses of Version Control; 12.2 Version Control Concepts; 12.3 How VC Helps with Basic Operations; 12.4 Editing Comment Buffers; 12.5 VC Command Summary; 12.6 VC Mode Indicators; 12.7 Which Version Control System?; 12.8 Individual VC Commands; 12.

9 Customizing VC; 12.10 Extending VC; 12.11 What VC Is Not; 12.12 Using VC Effectively; 12.13 Comparing with Ediff;Chapter 13: Platform-Specific Considerations; 13.1 Emacs and Unix; 13.2 Emacs and Mac OS X; 13.3 Emacs and Windows;Chapter 14: The Help System; 14.

1 Using the Tutorial; 14.2 Help Commands; 14.3 Help with Complex Emacs Commands; 14.4 Navigating Emacs Documentation; 14.5 Completion;Appendix A: Emacs Variables;Appendix B: Emacs Lisp Packages;Appendix C: Bugs and Bug Fixes;Appendix D: Online Resources;Appendix E: Quick Reference;Colophon;.