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xEmacs Tutorial
Getting Started with xEmacs
- Start up xEmacs by clicking the icon on the desktop, or by typing xemacs from a command line.
- xEmacs uses a menu along with the normal keyboard commands (some are listed below). You can use the menu to do just about anything. For example, to open up a file, you may click on the "Open" button (or click File : Open). You will also see a "Dired" button (don't bother with this option - its not used to edit code), "Save", "Print", "Cut", "Copy", "Paste", "Undo", and a few others including "Compile" and "Debug".
- To create a "project" all you need to do is create or add multiple files into one directory. You can open up all of these files (File : Open) or create them (Ctrl-x Ctrl-f - make sure you type in the .java extention!). They will be displayed on the top of the screen at little tabs (one for each file or Buffer). To switch over from one file to the other, you can click on the little tabs at the top of the screen. See Figure 1 for an illustration of the menu bar in xEmacs.
Figure 1: The Menu Bar in xEmacs
- Here are some of the more basic commands used with xEmacs:
| Command | Used to: |
| Ctrl-x Ctrl-f | Create new file/open file |
| Ctrl-x u | Undo last action |
| Ctrl-k | Deletes a whole line |
| Ctrl-s | Search forwards "word" (Ctrl-s again to find next) |
| Ctrl-r | Search backwards for "word" (Ctrl-r again for next) |
| Ctrl-x Ctrl-s | Save file |
| Ctrl-x Ctrl-b | List all buffers |
| Ctrl-x Ctrl-f | Switch buffers/Create a new file |
| Ctrl-g | Stop/kill a command |
| Ctrl-x Ctrl-c | Quit xEmacs |
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