The tutorial should teach you basic cursor movement, how to abort an Emacs command, Emacs windowing, the relationship between buffers and files and so on. Probably the most important thing to remember ...

An old joke is that Emacs is a text editor with an operating system included, given that its extensibility and customization often goes far beyond traditional text editors. Part of its well-earned … ...

Emacs now displays the source code of the main routine, together with the GUD, locals, breakpoint and stack buffers, in a single frame. For the purposes of this tutorial, this arrangement is assumed.