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-.TH EMACS 1 "2007 April 13" "GNU Emacs 23.0.60"
+.\" See section COPYING for copyright and redistribution information.
+.TH EMACS 1 "2007 April 13" "GNU Emacs 23.1.93"
.
.
.SH NAME
written by the author of the original (PDP-10)
.IR Emacs ,
Richard Stallman.
-.br
+The user functionality of GNU Emacs encompasses everything other
+editors do, and it is easily extensible since its editing commands are
+written in Lisp.
+.PP
The primary documentation of GNU Emacs is in the GNU Emacs Manual,
which you can read using Info, either from Emacs or as a standalone
program.
Please look there for complete and up-to-date documentation.
-This man page is updated only when someone volunteers to do so; the
-Emacs maintainers' priority goal is to minimize the amount of time
-this man page takes away from other more useful projects.
-.br
-The user functionality of GNU Emacs encompasses
-everything other
-.I Emacs
-editors do, and it is easily extensible since its
-editing commands are written in Lisp.
+This man page is updated only when someone volunteers to do so.
.PP
.I Emacs
has an extensive interactive help facility,
.I Emacs
windows and buffers.
CTRL-h or F1 enters the Help facility.
-Help Tutorial (CTRL-h t) starts an interactive tutorial which can
+Help Tutorial (CTRL-h t) starts an interactive tutorial to quickly
teach beginners the fundamentals of
-.I Emacs
-in a few minutes.
-Help Apropos (CTRL-h a) helps you
-find a command given its functionality, Help Character (CTRL-h c)
-describes a given character's effect, and Help Function (CTRL-h f)
-describes a given Lisp function specified by name.
-.PP
-.IR Emacs 's
-Undo can undo several steps of modification to your buffers, so it is
-easy to recover from editing mistakes.
+.I Emacs.
+Help Apropos (CTRL-h a) helps you find a command given its
+functionality, Help Key (CTRL-h k) describes a given key sequence, and
+Help Function (CTRL-h f) describes a given Lisp function.
.PP
.IR "GNU Emacs" 's
many special packages handle mail reading (RMail) and sending (Mail),
.I Emacs
windows (Shell), running a Lisp read-eval-print loop
(Lisp-Interaction-Mode), automated psychotherapy (Doctor), and much more.
-.PP
-There is an extensive reference manual, but
-users of other Emacses
-should have little trouble adapting even
-without a copy.
-Users new to
-.I Emacs
-will be able
-to use basic features fairly rapidly by studying the tutorial and
-using the self-documentation features.
.
.SS Emacs Options
The following options are of general interest:
.B \-\-no\-desktop
Do not load a saved desktop.
.TP
-.BR \-nl ", " \-\-no\-shared\-memory
-Do not use shared memory.
-.TP
.BR \-Q ", " \-\-quick
-Equivalent to "\-q \-\-no\-site\-file \-\-no\-splash".
+Similar to "\-q \-\-no\-site\-file \-\-no\-splash". Also, avoid
+processing X resources.
.TP
.B \-\-no\-splash
Do not display a splash screen during start-up.
as the terminal instead of using stdin/stdout.
This must be the first argument specified in the command line.
.TP
-.BR \-\-multibyte ", " \-\-no-unibyte
-Enable multibyte mode (enabled by default).
-.TP
-.BR \-\-unibyte ", " \-\-no-multibyte
-Enable unibyte mode.
+.B \-\-daemon
+Start Emacs as a daemon, enabling the Emacs server and disconnecting
+from the terminal. You can then use the emacsclient command to
+connect to the server (see
+.BR emacsclient (1)).
.TP
.B \-\-version
Display
Display this help and exit.
.RE
.PP
-The following options are lisp-oriented
+The following options are Lisp-oriented
(these options are processed in the order encountered):
.RS
.TP 8
.B \-\-batch
Edit in batch mode.
The editor will send messages to stderr.
-This option must be the first in the argument list.
You must use \-l and \-f options to specify files to execute
and functions to call.
.TP
.BR \-fw ", " \-\-fullwidth
Make the first frame as wide as the screen.
.TP
+.BR \-mm ", " \-\-maximized
+Maximize the first frame, like "\-fw \-fh".
+.TP
.BI \-fg " color\fR,\fP " \-\-foreground\-color " color"
On color displays, set the color of the text.
.BR \-nw ", " \-\-no\-window\-system
Tell
.I Emacs
-not to use its special interface to X.
+not to create a graphical frame.
If you use this switch when invoking
.I Emacs
from an
.I depth
is the number of color planes.
.RE
-.PP
-If you try to set color values while using a black and white display,
-the window's characteristics will default as follows:
-the foreground color will be set to black,
-the background color will be set to white,
-the border color will be set to grey,
-and the text and mouse cursors will be set to black.
-.
-.SS Using the Mouse
-.PP
-The following lists some of the mouse button bindings for the
-.I Emacs
-window under X11.
-.
-.RS
-.TS
-l l
-- -
-l l.
-MOUSE BUTTON FUNCTION
-left Set point.
-middle Paste text.
-right Cut text into X cut buffer.
-SHIFT-middle Cut text into X cut buffer.
-SHIFT-right Paste text.
-CTRL-middle Cut text into X cut buffer and kill it.
-CTRL-right T{
-Select this window, then split it into two windows.
-Same as typing CTRL\-x 2.
-T}
-.\" START DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X MENUS
-CTRL-SHIFT-left T{
-X buffer menu \(em hold the buttons and keys
-down, wait for menu to appear, select buffer, and release.
-Move mouse out of menu and release to cancel.
-T}
-CTRL-SHIFT-middle T{
-X help menu \(em pop up index card menu for Emacs help.
-T}
-.\" STOP DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X MENUS
-CTRL-SHIFT-right T{
-Select window with mouse, and delete all other windows.
-Same as typing CTRL\-x 1.
-T}
-.\" STOP DELETING HERE IF YOU'RE NOT USING X
-.TE
-.RE
-.
.
.SH MANUALS
You can order printed copies of the GNU Emacs Manual from the Free
when to report bugs.
Also, include the version number of the Emacs you are running in
\fIevery\fR bug report that you send in.
+Bugs tend actually to be fixed if they can be isolated, so it is
+in your interest to report them in such a way that they can be
+easily reproduced.
Do not expect a personal answer to a bug report.
The purpose of reporting bugs is to get them fixed for everyone
Please do not send anything but bug reports to this mailing list.
For more information about Emacs mailing lists, see the
-file /usr/local/emacs/etc/MAILINGLISTS.
-Bugs tend actually to be fixed if they can be isolated, so it is
-in your interest to report them in such a way that they can be
-easily reproduced.
+file /usr/local/share/emacs/$VERSION/etc/MAILINGLISTS.
.
.
.SH UNRESTRICTIONS
.SH AUTHORS
.I Emacs
was written by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation.
-Joachim Martillo and Robert Krawitz added the X features.
+For detailed credits and acknowledgements, see the GNU Emacs manual.
+.
.
.
.SH COPYING
Copyright
.if t \(co
.if n (C)
-1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
- 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
+2009, 2010
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
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