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Thu 18 Oct 2012
09:30 - 13:00

Venue: Titan Teaching Room 1

Provided by: University Computing Service


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Emacs Editor: Introduction

Thu 18 Oct 2012

Description

Emacs is a very powerful plain text editor used across the computer-using community world-wide. This course will introduce its basic use and explain how it can make your life dealing with plain text or program source code much easier.

Prerequisites

Elementary use of Linux.

Sessions

Number of sessions: 1

# Date Time Venue Trainer
1 Thu 18 Oct 2012   09:30 - 13:00 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1 R.J. Dowling
Topics covered
  • Launching emacs
  • Quitting emacs
  • Undoing edits
  • Loading a file
  • Navigating within a file
  • Editing a plain text file
  • Editing a C file
  • Editing a Fortran file
  • Editing a Python file
  • Switching between buffers
  • Searching and replacement
  • Jumping to a line
  • Copying, cutting and pasting text
  • Keystroke macros
Format

Presentation/demonstration with practicals.

System requirements

Emacs v.22 on PWF Linux

Notes
  • Practical work will be done on PWF Linux.
  • Course Notes are available.
Duration

One half day session

Theme
Unix (including Linux) Systems & Use

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