D. Basic Editing Commands

We now give the basics of how to enter text, make corrections, and save the text in a file. If this material is new to you, you might learn it more easily by running the Emacs learn-by-doing tutorial. To use the tutorial, run Emacs and type Control-h t (help-with-tutorial).

To clear the screen and redisplay, type C-l (recenter).

D.1 Inserting Text		Inserting text by simply typing it.
D.2 Changing the Location of Point		How to move the cursor to the place where you want to change something.
D.3 Erasing Text		Deleting and killing text.
D.4 Undoing Changes		Undoing recent changes in the text.
D.5 Files		Visiting, creating, and saving files.
D.6 Help		Asking what a character does.
D.7 Blank Lines		Commands to make or delete blank lines.
D.8 Continuation Lines		Lines too wide for the screen.
D.9 Cursor Position Information		What page, line, row, or column is point on?
D.10 Numeric Arguments		Numeric arguments for repeating a command.
D.11 Repeating a Command		A short-cut for repeating the previous command.