Some Emacs Resources

Here are a few resources that will help you to understand the emacs editor:

• a guided tour of emacs, which will show you many of the capabilities and special features of emacs
• the online emacs tutorial, which you can access by launching emacs from a terminal window and then typing C-_ t (that's control-underscore followed by t),
• the Emacs reference card
• the Emacs survival card
• Living In Emacs,
• the Emacs Beginner's HOWTO
• Paul Ezust has a nice handout describing basic Emacs keystrokes and functions.