Intro

• lot of stuff to cover
• remember features, not all control codes

Overview

• Conventions
• Startup and Exit
• Screen Layout
• Basic Navigation
• Editing
• dired Mode
• Command Macros
• Getting Help...or not
• Compiling Code and Finding Errors
• Abbreviations
• Shell Mode
• Customization
• Version Control
• ediff mode - finding differences and merging changes
• Misc Stuff

Conventions

• Alt key on Sun keyboards

Startup

• running in background - always up (MIT's Athena project)
• aborting
• saving files
• exiting

Screen Layout

• file status indicators, "**" and "%%" in mode line.
• modes and how to get to them by the "~/.emacs" file

Modes

Navigation

• cursor movement
• splitting windows
• opening files
• buffer manipulation

Editing

• mark and point
• copying, killing and yanking
• kill ring
• fill-region/paragraph

Dired

• R, M, C, Z, d, x, n, p, f, o
• expanding and viewing a tar file

Command Macros

• open "demo/macros.pl"
• search for "!@#"
• define a keyboard macro to goto beginning of line, delete one char and go to next line
• execute the last keyboard macro
• name a macro ("name-last-kbd-macro")
• insert named macro ("insert-kbd-macro")
• create ~/lisp dir
• save macro ("write-file")
• byte-compile lisp code
• load macro:

  (setq load-path (append load-path (list "~khamsi_s/lisp")))
  (load "uncomment_line")
  
  

• execute function

Help and Info Mode

• displaying bindings for a particular mode ("C-h b")
• finding what a keystroke does ("C-h k")
• command apropos (regex, "C-h a")
• online tutorial ("C-h t")
• navigating through info mode and general help arguments.

Compiling Code

Abbreviations

• go to a blank line
• type the abbrev "b2b"
• type "C-x a i g"
• type "/iridium/sv_build/mission/phase_b2"
• show expansion

Shell Mode

• command completion (TAB)
• command recall ("M-p" & "M-n")
• exit

Customization

Version Control

• type "cd demo/demo_rcs"
• dired that dir and create an RCS dir
• edit code.cxx
• type "C-x v i" to register the file
• type "C-x C-q" to check out the file
• type "C-x v v" to check in the file

ediff Mode

• "demo/test_template1.pl" and
• "demo/test_template2.pl"

Misc Stuff

• "isearch-forward" in file "demo/test_template1.pl" for "test_lib"
• ("bury-buffer")

Last updated $Date: 1997/04/11 03:46:14 $.