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diff --git a/man/emacs.texi b/man/emacs.texi index ad9658ab368..a87000793d5 100644 --- a/man/emacs.texi +++ b/man/emacs.texi @@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ all GNU Emacs features. We don't try to describe VMS usage in this manual. @xref{MS-DOS}, for information about using Emacs on MS-DOS. @end iftex -@node Distrib, Copying, Top, Top +@node Distrib, Intro, Top, Top @unnumbered Distribution GNU Emacs is @dfn{free software}; this means that everyone is free to @@ -956,8 +956,8 @@ might instead suggest ordering a CD-ROM from the Foundation occasionally, or subscribing to periodic updates. @ifnotinfo -@node Acknowledgments, Copying, Distrib, Top -@section Acknowledgments +@node Acknowledgments, Intro, Distrib, Top +@unnumberedsec Acknowledgments Contributors to GNU Emacs include Per Abrahamsen, Jay K. Adams, Joe Arceneaux, Boaz Ben-Zvi, Jim Blandy, Terrence Brannon, Frank Bresz, @@ -1002,8 +1002,101 @@ S. T. Wu, Tom Wurgler, Eli Zaretskii, Jamie Zawinski, Ian T. Zimmermann, Reto Zimmermann, and Neal Ziring. @end ifnotinfo -@node Copying, GNU Free Documentation License, Distrib, Top -@unnumbered GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE + +@node Intro, Glossary, Distrib, Top +@unnumbered Introduction + + You are reading about GNU Emacs, the GNU incarnation of the advanced, +self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time display editor Emacs. +(The `G' in `GNU' is not silent.) + + We say that Emacs is a @dfn{display} editor because normally the text +being edited is visible on the screen and is updated automatically as you +type your commands. @xref{Screen,Display}. + + We call it a @dfn{real-time} editor because the display is updated very +frequently, usually after each character or pair of characters you +type. This minimizes the amount of information you must keep in your +head as you edit. @xref{Basic,Real-time,Basic Editing}. + + We call Emacs advanced because it provides facilities that go beyond +simple insertion and deletion: controlling subprocesses; automatic +indentation of programs; viewing two or more files at once; editing +formatted text; and dealing in terms of characters, words, lines, +sentences, paragraphs, and pages, as well as expressions and comments in +several different programming languages. + + @dfn{Self-documenting} means that at any time you can type a special +character, @kbd{Control-h}, to find out what your options are. You can +also use it to find out what any command does, or to find all the commands +that pertain to a topic. @xref{Help}. + + @dfn{Customizable} means that you can change the definitions of Emacs +commands in little ways. For example, if you use a programming language in +which comments start with @samp{<**} and end with @samp{**>}, you can tell +the Emacs comment manipulation commands to use those strings +(@pxref{Comments}). Another sort of customization is rearrangement of the +command set. For example, if you prefer the four basic cursor motion +commands (up, down, left and right) on keys in a diamond pattern on the +keyboard, you can rebind the keys that way. @xref{Customization}. + + @dfn{Extensible} means that you can go beyond simple customization and +write entirely new commands, programs in the Lisp language to be run by +Emacs's own Lisp interpreter. Emacs is an ``on-line extensible'' +system, which means that it is divided into many functions that call +each other, any of which can be redefined in the middle of an editing +session. Almost any part of Emacs can be replaced without making a +separate copy of all of Emacs. Most of the editing commands of Emacs +are written in Lisp; the few exceptions could have been written +in Lisp but are written in C for efficiency. Although only a programmer +can write an extension, anybody can use it afterward. If you want to +learn Emacs Lisp programming, we recommend the @cite{Introduction to +Emacs Lisp} by Robert J. Chassell, also published by the Free Software +Foundation. + + When run under the X Window System, Emacs provides its own menus and +convenient bindings to mouse buttons. But Emacs can provide many of the +benefits of a window system on a text-only terminal. For instance, you +can look at or edit several files at once, move text between files, and +edit files while running shell commands. + +@include screen.texi +@include commands.texi +@include entering.texi +@include basic.texi +@include mini.texi +@include m-x.texi +@include help.texi +@include mark.texi +@include killing.texi +@include regs.texi +@include display.texi +@include search.texi +@include fixit.texi +@include kmacro.texi +@include files.texi +@include buffers.texi +@include windows.texi +@include frames.texi +@include mule.texi +@include major.texi +@include indent.texi +@include text.texi +@include programs.texi +@include building.texi +@include maintaining.texi +@include abbrevs.texi +@include picture.texi +@include sending.texi +@include rmail.texi +@include dired.texi +@include calendar.texi +@include misc.texi +@include custom.texi +@include trouble.texi + +@node Copying, GNU Free Documentation License, Service, Top +@appendix GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE @center Version 2, June 1991 @display @@ -1399,98 +1492,6 @@ library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License. @include doclicense.texi - -@node Intro, Glossary, GNU Free Documentation License, Top -@unnumbered Introduction - - You are reading about GNU Emacs, the GNU incarnation of the advanced, -self-documenting, customizable, extensible real-time display editor Emacs. -(The `G' in `GNU' is not silent.) - - We say that Emacs is a @dfn{display} editor because normally the text -being edited is visible on the screen and is updated automatically as you -type your commands. @xref{Screen,Display}. - - We call it a @dfn{real-time} editor because the display is updated very -frequently, usually after each character or pair of characters you -type. This minimizes the amount of information you must keep in your -head as you edit. @xref{Basic,Real-time,Basic Editing}. - - We call Emacs advanced because it provides facilities that go beyond -simple insertion and deletion: controlling subprocesses; automatic -indentation of programs; viewing two or more files at once; editing -formatted text; and dealing in terms of characters, words, lines, -sentences, paragraphs, and pages, as well as expressions and comments in -several different programming languages. - - @dfn{Self-documenting} means that at any time you can type a special -character, @kbd{Control-h}, to find out what your options are. You can -also use it to find out what any command does, or to find all the commands -that pertain to a topic. @xref{Help}. - - @dfn{Customizable} means that you can change the definitions of Emacs -commands in little ways. For example, if you use a programming language in -which comments start with @samp{<**} and end with @samp{**>}, you can tell -the Emacs comment manipulation commands to use those strings -(@pxref{Comments}). Another sort of customization is rearrangement of the -command set. For example, if you prefer the four basic cursor motion -commands (up, down, left and right) on keys in a diamond pattern on the -keyboard, you can rebind the keys that way. @xref{Customization}. - - @dfn{Extensible} means that you can go beyond simple customization and -write entirely new commands, programs in the Lisp language to be run by -Emacs's own Lisp interpreter. Emacs is an ``on-line extensible'' -system, which means that it is divided into many functions that call -each other, any of which can be redefined in the middle of an editing -session. Almost any part of Emacs can be replaced without making a -separate copy of all of Emacs. Most of the editing commands of Emacs -are written in Lisp; the few exceptions could have been written -in Lisp but are written in C for efficiency. Although only a programmer -can write an extension, anybody can use it afterward. If you want to -learn Emacs Lisp programming, we recommend the @cite{Introduction to -Emacs Lisp} by Robert J. Chassell, also published by the Free Software -Foundation. - - When run under the X Window System, Emacs provides its own menus and -convenient bindings to mouse buttons. But Emacs can provide many of the -benefits of a window system on a text-only terminal. For instance, you -can look at or edit several files at once, move text between files, and -edit files while running shell commands. - -@include screen.texi -@include commands.texi -@include entering.texi -@include basic.texi -@include mini.texi -@include m-x.texi -@include help.texi -@include mark.texi -@include killing.texi -@include regs.texi -@include display.texi -@include search.texi -@include fixit.texi -@include kmacro.texi -@include files.texi -@include buffers.texi -@include windows.texi -@include frames.texi -@include mule.texi -@include major.texi -@include indent.texi -@include text.texi -@include programs.texi -@include building.texi -@include maintaining.texi -@include abbrevs.texi -@include picture.texi -@include sending.texi -@include rmail.texi -@include dired.texi -@include calendar.texi -@include misc.texi -@include custom.texi -@include trouble.texi @include cmdargs.texi @include xresources.texi |