Required Reading

• The Edit/Compile/Execute cycle in Emacs

• A Portable Swiss Army Knife of Emacs Commands

• Emacs' own Emacs Tutorial: Learn the basics of Emacs. Use SSH to login to gladstone, and enter the shell command emacs -f help-with-tutorial Running the emacs tutorial will start an emacs session which will instruct you on the basic emacs commands. The time it will take you to go through the tutorial will be well worth your while.

• 10 Essential Emacs Tips

• Unix For Beginners. Material covered in online tutorials 1, 2 (omit 2.5 Searching), and 5.1-5.2 are covered in CIS 110, the prereq for 122.

Misc (totally optional reading)

• He's an Emacs Wizard
• St. Ignucius and the Church of Emacs.
• download site for an Emacs manual
• GNU Emacs for Windows
• XEmacs references.