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.\" Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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'\" t
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.TH EMACS 1 "2001 November 23"
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.UC 4
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.TH EMACS 1 "2007 April 13" "GNU Emacs 22.1"
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.SH NAME
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emacs \- GNU project Emacs
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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@ -40,11 +39,11 @@ written by the author of the original (PDP-10)
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Richard Stallman.
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.br
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The primary documentation of GNU Emacs is in the GNU Emacs Manual,
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which you can read on line using Info, a subsystem of Emacs. Please
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look there for complete and up-to-date documentation. This man page
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is updated only when someone volunteers to do so; the Emacs
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maintainers' priority goal is to minimize the amount of time this man
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page takes away from other more useful projects.
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which you can read using Info, either from Emacs or as a standalone
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program. Please look there for complete and up-to-date documentation.
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This man page is updated only when someone volunteers to do so; the
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Emacs maintainers' priority goal is to minimize the amount of time
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this man page takes away from other more useful projects.
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.br
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The user functionality of GNU Emacs encompasses
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everything other
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@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ but the facility assumes that you know how to manipulate
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.I Emacs
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windows and buffers.
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CTRL-h or F1 enters the Help facility. Help Tutorial (CTRL-h t)
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requests an interactive tutorial which can teach beginners the fundamentals
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starts an interactive tutorial which can teach beginners the fundamentals
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of
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.I Emacs
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in a few minutes.
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@ -77,7 +76,7 @@ outline editing (Outline), compiling (Compile), running subshells
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within
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.I Emacs
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windows (Shell), running a Lisp read-eval-print loop
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(Lisp-Interaction-Mode), and automated psychotherapy (Doctor).
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(Lisp-Interaction-Mode), automated psychotherapy (Doctor), and much more.
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.PP
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There is an extensive reference manual, but
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users of other Emacses
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@ -201,11 +200,6 @@ Display the
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.I Emacs
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window in reverse video.
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.TP
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.B \-i
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Use the "kitchen sink" bitmap icon when iconifying the
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.I Emacs
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window.
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.TP
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.BI \-font " font, " \-fn " font"
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Set the
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.I Emacs
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@ -262,8 +256,8 @@ with selecting or deselecting the tool bar and menu bar.
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.BI \-fg " color"
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On color displays, sets the color of the text.
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See the file
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.I /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt
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Use the command
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.I M-x list-colors-display
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for a list of valid
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color names.
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.TP
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from an
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.IR xterm (1)
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window, display is done in that window.
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This must be the first option specified in the command line.
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.PP
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You can set
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.I X
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@ -431,43 +424,31 @@ make and distribute copies of the Emacs manual. The TeX source to the
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manual is also included in the Emacs source distribution.
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.PP
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.SH FILES
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/usr/local/share/info - files for the Info documentation browser
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(a subsystem of Emacs) to refer to. Currently not much of Unix
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is documented here, but the complete text of the Emacs reference
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manual is included in a convenient tree structured form.
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/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/src - C source files and object files
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/usr/local/share/info - files for the Info documentation browser.
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The complete text of the Emacs reference manual is included in a
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convenient tree structured form. Also includes the Emacs Lisp
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Reference Manual, useful to anyone wishing to write programs in the
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Emacs Lisp extension language.
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/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/lisp - Lisp source files and compiled files
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that define most editing commands. Some are preloaded;
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others are autoloaded from this directory when used.
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/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc - various programs that are used with
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GNU Emacs, and some files of information.
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/usr/local/libexec/emacs/$VERSION/$ARCH - various programs that are
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used with GNU Emacs.
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/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc - various files of information.
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/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc/DOC.* - contains the documentation
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strings for the Lisp primitives and preloaded Lisp functions
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of GNU Emacs. They are stored here to reduce the size of
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Emacs proper.
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/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc/OTHER.EMACSES discusses GNU Emacs
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vs. other versions of Emacs.
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.br
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/usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc/SERVICE lists people offering
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various services to assist users of GNU Emacs, including education,
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troubleshooting, porting and customization.
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.br
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These files also have information useful to anyone wishing to write
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programs in the Emacs Lisp extension language, which has not yet been fully
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documented.
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/usr/local/com/emacs/lock - holds lock files that are made for all
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files being modified in Emacs, to prevent simultaneous modification
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of one file by two users.
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.\" START DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X
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/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt - list of valid X color names.
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.\" STOP DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X
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.PP
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.SH BUGS
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There is a mailing list, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, for reporting Emacs
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@ -488,9 +469,6 @@ For more information about Emacs mailing lists, see the
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file /usr/local/emacs/etc/MAILINGLISTS. Bugs tend actually to be
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fixed if they can be isolated, so it is in your interest to report
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them in such a way that they can be easily reproduced.
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.PP
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Bugs that I know about are: shell will not work with programs
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running in Raw mode on some Unix versions.
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.SH UNRESTRICTIONS
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.PP
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.I Emacs
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@ -519,11 +497,10 @@ Richard Stallman encourages you to improve and extend
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.I Emacs,
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and urges that
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you contribute your extensions to the GNU library. Eventually GNU
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(Gnu's Not Unix) will be a complete replacement for Berkeley
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Unix.
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(Gnu's Not Unix) will be a complete replacement for Unix.
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Everyone will be free to use, copy, study and change the GNU system.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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X(1), xlsfonts(1), xterm(1), xrdb(1)
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emacsclient(1), etags(1), X(1), xlsfonts(1), xterm(1), xrdb(1)
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.SH AUTHORS
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.PP
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.I Emacs
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@ -532,7 +509,7 @@ Joachim Martillo and Robert Krawitz added the X features.
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.SH COPYING
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Copyright
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.if t \(co
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.if n (c)
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.if n (C)
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1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
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2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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.PP
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