7 Basic Editing Commands

Here we explain the basics of how to enter text, make corrections, and save the text in a file. If this material is new to you, we suggest you first run the Emacs learn-by-doing tutorial, by typing C-h t ( help-with-tutorial).

• Inserting Text
• Changing the Location of Point
• Erasing Text
• Undoing Changes
• Files
• Help
• Blank Lines
• Continuation Lines
• Cursor Position Information
• Numeric Arguments
• Repeating a Command