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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to entering.texi
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
[Emacs-diffs] Changes to entering.texi |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:35:54 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /sources/emacs
Module name: emacs
Changes by: Glenn Morris <gm> 07/09/06 04:35:54
Index: entering.texi
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RCS file: entering.texi
diff -N entering.texi
--- entering.texi 16 Jan 2007 02:23:29 -0000 1.20
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address@hidden This is part of the Emacs manual.
address@hidden Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002,
2003,
address@hidden 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address@hidden See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
address@hidden Entering Emacs, Exiting, Text Characters, Top
address@hidden Entering and Exiting Emacs
address@hidden entering Emacs
address@hidden starting Emacs
-
- The usual way to invoke Emacs is with the shell command
address@hidden Emacs clears the screen, then displays an initial
-help message and copyright notice. Some operating systems discard
-your type-ahead when Emacs starts up; they give Emacs no way to
-prevent this. On those systems, wait for Emacs to clear the screen
-before you start typing.
-
- From a shell window under the X Window System, run Emacs in the
-background with @command{emacs&}. This way, Emacs won't tie up the
-shell window, so you can use it to run other shell commands while
-Emacs is running. You can type Emacs commands as soon as you direct
-your keyboard input to an Emacs frame.
-
address@hidden initial-major-mode
- When Emacs starts up, it creates a buffer named @samp{*scratch*}.
-That's the buffer you start out in. The @samp{*scratch*} buffer uses
-Lisp Interaction mode; you can use it to type Lisp expressions and
-evaluate them. You can also ignore that capability and just write notes
-there. You can specify a different major mode for this buffer by
-setting the variable @code{initial-major-mode} in your init file.
address@hidden File}.
-
- It is possible to specify files to be visited, Lisp files to be
-loaded, and functions to be called through Emacs command-line
-arguments. @xref{Emacs Invocation}. The feature exists mainly for
-compatibility with other editors, and for scripts.
-
- Many editors are designed to edit one file. When done with that
-file, you exit the editor. The next time you want to edit a file, you
-must start the editor again. Working this way, it is convenient to
-use a command-line argument to say which file to edit.
-
- However, killing Emacs after editing one each and starting it afresh
-for the next file is both unnecessary and harmful, since it denies you
-the full power of Emacs. Emacs can visit more than one file in a
-single editing session, and that is the right way to use it. Exiting
-the Emacs session loses valuable accumulated context, such as the kill
-ring, registers, undo history, and mark ring. These features are
-useful for operating on multiple files, or even continuing to edit one
-file. If you kill Emacs after each file, you don't take advantage of
-them.
-
- The recommended way to use GNU Emacs is to start it only once, just
-after you log in, and do all your editing in the same Emacs session.
-Each time you edit a file, you visit it with the existing Emacs, which
-eventually has many files in it ready for editing. Usually you do not
-kill Emacs until you are about to log out. @xref{Files}, for more
-information on visiting more than one file.
-
- To edit a file from another program while Emacs is running, you can
-use the @command{emacsclient} helper program to open a file in the
-already running Emacs. @xref{Emacs Server}.
-
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-
address@hidden Exiting, Basic, Entering Emacs, Top
address@hidden Exiting Emacs
address@hidden exiting
address@hidden killing Emacs
address@hidden suspending
address@hidden leaving Emacs
address@hidden quitting Emacs
-
- There are two commands for exiting Emacs, and three kinds of
-exiting: @dfn{iconifying} Emacs, @dfn{suspending} Emacs, and
address@hidden Emacs.
-
- @dfn{Iconifying} means replacing the Emacs frame with a small box or
-``icon'' on the screen. This is the usual way to exit Emacs when
-you're using a graphical display---if you bother to ``exit'' at all.
-(Just switching to another application is usually sufficient.)
-
- @dfn{Suspending} means stopping Emacs temporarily and returning
-control to its parent process (usually a shell), allowing you to
-resume editing later in the same Emacs job. This is the usual way to
-exit Emacs when running it on a text terminal.
-
- @dfn{Killing} Emacs means destroying the Emacs job. You can run Emacs
-again later, but you will get a fresh Emacs; there is no way to resume
-the same editing session after it has been killed.
-
address@hidden @kbd
address@hidden C-z
-Suspend Emacs (@code{suspend-emacs}) or iconify a frame
-(@code{iconify-or-deiconify-frame}).
address@hidden C-x C-c
-Kill Emacs (@code{save-buffers-kill-emacs}).
address@hidden table
-
address@hidden C-z
address@hidden iconify-or-deiconify-frame
- On graphical displays, @kbd{C-z} runs the command
address@hidden, which temporarily iconifies (or
-``minimizes'') the selected Emacs frame (@pxref{Frames}). You can
-then use the window manager to select some other application. (You
-could select another application without iconifying Emacs first, but
-getting the Emacs frame out of the way can make it more convenient to
-find the other application.)
-
address@hidden suspend-emacs
- On a text terminal, @kbd{C-z} runs the command @code{suspend-emacs}.
-Suspending Emacs takes you back to the shell from which you invoked
-Emacs. You can resume Emacs with the shell command @command{%emacs}
-in most common shells. On systems that don't support suspending
-programs, @kbd{C-z} starts an inferior shell that communicates
-directly with the terminal, and Emacs waits until you exit the
-subshell. (The way to do that is probably with @kbd{C-d} or
address@hidden, but it depends on which shell you use.) On these
-systems, you can only get back to the shell from which Emacs was run
-(to log out, for example) when you kill Emacs.
-
address@hidden cannot-suspend
- Suspending can fail if you run Emacs under a shell that doesn't
-support suspendion of its subjobs, even if the system itself does
-support it. In such a case, you can set the variable
address@hidden to a address@hidden value to force @kbd{C-z} to
-start an inferior shell.
-
address@hidden C-x C-c
address@hidden save-buffers-kill-emacs
- To exit and kill Emacs, type @kbd{C-x C-c}
-(@code{save-buffers-kill-emacs}). A two-character key is used to make
-it harder to type by accident. This command first offers to save any
-modified file-visiting buffers. If you do not save them all, it asks
-for confirmation with @kbd{yes} before killing Emacs, since any
-changes not saved now will be lost forever. Also, if any subprocesses are
-still running, @kbd{C-x C-c} asks for confirmation about them, since
-killing Emacs will also kill the subprocesses.
-
address@hidden confirm-kill-emacs
- If the value of the variable @code{confirm-kill-emacs} is
address@hidden, @kbd{C-x C-c} assumes that its value is a predicate
-function, and calls that function. If the result is address@hidden, the
-session is killed, otherwise Emacs continues to run. One convenient
-function to use as the value of @code{confirm-kill-emacs} is the
-function @code{yes-or-no-p}. The default value of
address@hidden is @code{nil}.
-
- You can't resume an Emacs session after killing it. Emacs can,
-however, record certain session information when you kill it, such as
-which files you visited, so the next time you start Emacs it will try
-to visit the same files. @xref{Saving Emacs Sessions}.
-
- The operating system usually listens for certain special characters
-whose meaning is to kill or suspend the program you are running.
address@hidden operating system feature is turned off while you are in Emacs.}
-The meanings of @kbd{C-z} and @kbd{C-x C-c} as keys in Emacs were
-inspired by the use of @kbd{C-z} and @kbd{C-c} on several operating
-systems as the characters for stopping or killing a program, but that is
-their only relationship with the operating system. You can customize
-these keys to run any commands of your choice (@pxref{Keymaps}).
-
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