Cruise along the learning curve for Emacs text editing with these basic commands. Emacs is a LISP interpreter that functions as a text editor in Linux, distributed by the Free Software Association.

Not an auspicious start. To create a file, the manual explains, “just visit it. Emacs displays ‘ (New file)’ in the echo area, but in other respects behaves as if you had visited an existing empty ...

Recently, I was editing a rather long file in Emacs that had a number of fields in a line. The basic format of each line was mostly the same, with some occasional extra fields added in every 5-10 ...