Emacs Editor: Introduction

Emacs is a very powerful plain text editor used across the computer-using community world-wide. This course will introduce its basic use and explain how it can make your life dealing with plain text or program source code much easier.

Elementary use of Linux.

• Launching emacs
• Quitting emacs
• Undoing edits
• Loading a file
• Navigating within a file
• Editing a plain text file
• Editing a C file
• Editing a Fortran file
• Editing a Python file
• Switching between buffers
• Searching and replacement
• Jumping to a line
• Copying, cutting and pasting text
• Keystroke macros

Presentation/demonstration with practicals.

Emacs v.22 on PWF Linux

• Practical work will be done on PWF Linux.
• Course Notes are available.

One half day session