Table of Contents

Preface - 1. Emacs Basics - - Introducing Emacs! - Understanding Files and Buffers - A Word About Modes - Starting Emacs - About the Emacs Display - Emacs Commands - Opening a File; Saving Files - Leaving Emacs - Getting Help - Summary; 2. Editing - Moving the Cursor - Deleting Text - Marking Text to Delete, Move, or Copy - Emacs and the Clipboard - Editing Tricks and Shortcuts - Canceling Commands and Undoing Changes - Making Emacs Work the Way You Want - 3. Search and Replace - Different Kinds of Searches - Search and Replace - Checking Spelling Using Ispell - Word Abbreviations - 4. Using Buffers, Windows, and Frames; Understanding Buffers, Windows, and Frames - Working with Multiple Buffers - Working with Windows - Working with Frames - More About Buffers - More About Windows - Holding Your Place with Bookmarks; 5. Emacs as a Work Environment - Executing Commands in Shell Buffers; Using Dired, the Directory Editor - Preface - 1. Emacs Basics; Introducing Emacs! - Understanding Files and Buffers - A Word About Modes - Starting Emacs - About the Emacs Display - Emacs Commands; Opening a File - Saving Files - Leaving Emacs - Getting Help; Summary - 2. Editing - Moving the Cursor - Deleting Text; Marking Text to Delete, Move, or Copy - Emacs and the Clipboard; Editing Tricks and Shortcuts - Canceling Commands and Undoing Changes - Making Emacs Work the Way You Want - 3. Search and Replace - Different Kinds of Searches - Search and Replace; Checking Spelling Using Ispell - Word Abbreviations - 4. Using Buffers, Windows, and Frames - Understanding Buffers, Windows, and Frames - Working with Multiple Buffers - Working with Windows; Working with Frames - More About Buffers - More About Windows; Holding Your Place with Bookmarks - 5. Emacs as a Work Environment; Executing Commands in Shell Buffers - Using Dired, the Directory Editor - Printing from Emacs Reading Manpages in Emacs; Using Time Management Tools - 6. Writing Macros Defining a Macro Tips for Creating Good Macros - A More Complicated Macro Example; Editing a Macro - The Macro Ring - Binding Your Macro to a Key; Naming, Saving, and Executing Your Macros - Building More Complicated Macros - Executing Macros on a Region - Beyond Macros; 7. Simple Text Formatting and Specialized Editing Using Tabs; Indenting Text - Centering Text - Using Outline Mode; Rectangle Editing Making Simple Drawings - 8. Markup Language Support Comments - Font-Lock Mode - Writing HTML Writing XML - Marking up Text for TEX and LATEX - 9. Computer Language Support; Emacs as an IDE - Writing Code - C and C++ Support - Java Support The Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE); Perl Support - SQL Support - The Lisp Modes - 10. Customizing Emacs; Using Custom - Modifying the .emacs File Directly - Modifying Fonts and Colors - Customizing Your Key Bindings Setting Emacs Variables - Finding Emacs Lisp Packages - Starting Modes via Auto-Mode Customization - Making Emacs Work the Way You Think It Should; 11. Emacs Lisp Programming - Introduction to Lisp - Lisp Primitive Functions - Useful Built-in Emacs Functions - Building an Automatic Template System - Programming a Major Mode - Customizing Existing Modes - Building Your Own Lisp Library - 12. Version Control The Uses of Version Control - Version Control Concepts; How VC Helps with Basic Operations - Editing Comment Buffers; VC Command Summary - VC Mode Indicators - Which Version Control System? - Individual VC Commands - Customizing VC - Extending VC; What VC Is Not - Using VC Effectively - Comparing with Ediff; 13. Platform-Specific Considerations Emacs and Unix - Emacs and Mac OS X Emacs and Windows - 14. The Help System - Using the Tutorial - Help Commands - Help with Complex Emacs Commands Navigating Emacs Documentation - Completion - A. Emacs Variables; B. Emacs Lisp Packages C. Bugs and Bug Fixes - D. Online Resources; E. Quick Reference Glossary - Index - Printing from Emacs; Reading Manpages in Emacs - Using Time Management Tools 6. Writing Macros Defining a Macro - Tips for Creating Good Macros; A More Complicated Macro Example - Editing a Macro - The Macro Ring; Binding Your Macro to a Key - Naming, Saving, and Executing Your Macros - Building More Complicated Macros - Executing Macros on a Region - Beyond Macros - 7. Simple Text Formatting and Specialized - Editing - Using Tabs - Indenting Text - Centering Text Using Outline Mode - Rectangle Editing - Making Simple Drawings - 8. Markup Language Support Comments - Font-Lock Mode; Writing HTML - Writing XML - Marking up Text for TEX and LATEX; 9. Computer Language Support - Emacs as an IDE - Writing Code; C and C++ Support - Java Support - The Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE) - Perl Support - SQL Support - The Lisp Modes; 10. Customizing Emacs Using Custom - Modifying the .emacs File Directly - Modifying Fonts and Colors - Customizing Your Key Bindings - Setting Emacs Variables - Finding Emacs Lisp Packages; Starting Modes via Auto-Mode Customization - Making Emacs Work the Way You Think It Should - 11. Emacs Lisp Programming; Introduction to Lisp - Lisp Primitive Functions - Useful Built-in Emacs Functions - Building an Automatic Template System Programming a Major Mode - Customizing Existing Modes - Building Your Own Lisp Library - 12. Version Control The Uses of Version Control - Version Control Concepts - How VC Helps with Basic Operations - Editing Comment Buffers - VC Command Summary; VC Mode Indicators - Which Version Control System? - Individual VC Commands - Customizing VC - Extending VC - What VC Is Not - Using VC Effectively - Comparing with Ediff - 13. Platform-Specific Considerations - Emacs and Unix - Emacs and Mac OS X - Emacs and Windows - 14. The Help System - Using the Tutorial - Help Commands; Help with Complex Emacs Commands Navigating Emacs Documentation; Completion - A. Emacs Variables - B. Emacs Lisp Packages; C. Bugs and Bug Fixes - D. Online Resources - E. Quick Reference; Glossary - Index

About the Author

Debra Cameron is president of Cameron Consulting. In addition to her love for Emacs, Deb researches and writes about emerging technologies and their applications. Her latest book, Optical Networking: A Wiley Tech Brief, published in 2002 by John Wiley & Sons, covers the practical applications of optical networking and was written in the hope that true broadband will be more widely deployed. Deb also edits O'Reilly titles, including DNS and Bind, DNS on Windows 2000, TCP/IP Network Administration, HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Java Security, Java Swing, Learning Java, and Java Performance Tuning. She has presented numerous videos for WatchIT.com, covering security and networking as well as e-business topics. She has moderated roundtables on PlanetIT on advanced networking and intranet design. Deb resides in Gaithersburg, Maryland with her husband Jim and their three children, Meg, David, and Bethany. James Elliott is a senior software engineer at Berbee, with fifteen years professional experience as a systems developer. He started designing with objects well before work environments made it convenient, and has a passion for building high-quality Java tools and frameworks to simplify the tasks of other developers. Marc Loy is a senior programmer at Galileo Systems, LLC, but his day job seems to be teaching Java and Perl to various companies -- including Sun Microsystems. He has played with Java since the alpha days and can't find his way back to C. He is developing an interactive learning application at Galileo written entirely in Java. He received his master's degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and still lives in Madison with his partner, Ron Becker. He does find time to relax by playing the piano and/or throwing darts, depending on how successful the day of teaching or programming was.