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Basics Of The UNIX Operating System
Exercise 2

Basic Emacs Use and Command Line Editing

This practice will familiarize you with how to start Emacs, exit Emacs, start the Emacs tutorial and basic use of command line editing.

  1. Use emacs to edit the file "big.file" in the UNXclass directory. What command will do this?


  2. What do you type to exit emacs?


  3. Start the emacs tutorial and read the first couple screens worth of instructions. Which command did you use? Be sure to exit emacs afterward.


  4. Using command line editing go back to the command entered in #1 above. Change the "b" in "big.file" to "B" and hit return. What occurred? Exit emacs.


  5. Using command line editing go back to the command entered in #1 above. Move the cursor to the space after "emacs". Using a single control keystroke (<CTRL><key>) delete "emacs". Replace it with "ls -l" and hit return. What happened?


After attempting the above look here for answers

End of Practice 2 - Basic Emacs Use and Command Line Editing