We now give the basics of how to enter text, make corrections, and save the text in a file. If this material is new to you, you might learn it more easily by running the Emacs learn-by-doing tutorial. To use the tutorial, run Emacs and type Control-h t (help-with-tutorial ).
To clear the screen and redisplay, type C-l (recenter ).
| Inserting Text | Inserting text by simply typing it. |
| Moving Point | How to move the cursor to the place where you want to change something. |
| Erasing | Deleting and killing text. |
| Undo | Undoing previous changes. |
| Files | Visiting, creating, and saving files. |
| Help | Asking what a character does. |
| Blank Lines | Commands to make or delete blank lines. |
| Continuation Lines | Lines too wide for the screen. |
| Position Info | What page, line, row, or column is point on? |
| Arguments | Numeric arguments for repeating a command. |