STARTING EDMACS                                          SAMPLE EXECUTION                 
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     MU [44,12]EDMACS filnam.ext                | _                               |       When you start out for the first time
   or                                           |                                 |       the screen is blank  as is the one at
     MU [44,12]EDMACS outname=inname            |                                 |       left.   When  you start typing,  what
                                                |                                 |       you type appears on the screen as you
   These commands will  start up to edit        +---------------------------------+       are typing it.  See what happens when
   a file.  If it does not exist,  a new                                                  we type the word "Hi!"
   one will  be created.   If the second       Typed: Hi!                                 
   form  is used,   outname  will be the        +---------------------------------+       
   result file,  and  EDMACS  will  take        | Hi!_                            |       OK,  we've typed "Hi!".
   its input from inname.                       |                                 |       
                                                |                                 |       The  screen  now  contains  the  word
CHANGING FILES WITHIN  EDMACS                   |                                 |       "Hi!".
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     C-X C-V                                                                              If we type  some more,  we should see
                                               Typed:  My name is Tommy Totoh             more appear on the screen.  Let's see
   This command will offer to  save  the        +---------------------------------+       what happens.
   file currently being edited.   Answer        | Hi! My name is Tommy Totoh_     |       
   Yes or No.  You will then be asked to        |                                 |       Well it looks  like  it still  works.
   name  another file to edit.  Type its        |                                 |       What we have typed  has  appeared  on
   name, a return, and begin editing it.        |                                 |       the screen.
                                                +---------------------------------+       Oops!  Looks like  we have typed  the
LEAVING EDMACS                                                                            word  "Tooth" wrong.   Let's  see how
                                               Typed: C-B                                 we fix it.
     C-X C-Z                                    +---------------------------------+       
                                                | Hi! My name is Tommy Totoh_      |      We need to  go backwards.   Press the
   Exit and Save. Edmacs will ask you to        |                                 |       control key and "B" together  for the
   confirm with 'Yes' before exiting.           |                                 |       control command "backwards".   Now we
                                                |                                 |       are immediately following the mistake
     ESC -1 C-X C-Z                             +---------------------------------+       and we can rub out the two characters
   With a negative argument, Edmacs will                                                  that we typed wrong.
   exit without saving.                        Typed: Rubout Rubout                       
                                                +---------------------------------+       OK,  we've pressed rubout twice.
INSERTION                                       | Hi! My name is Tommy toh_        |      See how the two characters  vanished?
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   Start typing immediately. There is no        |                                 |       Now  we are ready to  put the letters
   insert command.  Whatever you type is        |                                 |       "ot" in there.
   inserted.  While the RETURN  key will        +---------------------------------+       
   move you to the start of a fresh line                                                  All we need to do is to type them.
   line,  the  LINEFEED  key will indent       Typed: ot                                  
   the new line to match the indentation        +---------------------------------+       
   present on the last non blank line.          | Hi! My name is Tommy Tooth_      |      Well, that looks ok.   Say,  would'nt
                                                |                                 |       it be nice if the name were on a line
OVERPRINT  The only "special MODE"              |                                 |       all by itself?  I think so!
                                                |                                 |       To do this,  we  want to  go back two
   Causes  what  you  type   to  replace        +---------------------------------+       words.  (To the beginning of the name
   what is under the  cursor instead  of                                                  Tommy).
   shoving it to the right as usual.  To       Typed: ESC-B ESC-B                         
   exit Overprint Mode, use C-X Q.              +---------------------------------+       To do this, we press the  ESCAPE key,
                                                | Hi! My name is T_ommy Tooth      |      release it, and then press "B".  This
SEARCHING                                       |                                 |       is called "ESCAPE backwards" and just
                                                |                                 |       as  we  used  "control backwards"  to
   The  command  C-Z  prompts  you for a        |                                 |       move back a letter,  we use ESC-B for
   string to search for.   Type in  what        +---------------------------------+       moving back by a word.  Here,  we had
   you want to find,  then  type  ESCAPE                                                  to do this  twice  since we needed to
   twice.  If the search fails, the bell       Typed: <RETURN>                            go back by two words.
   will sound.   ESC -Z  will repeat the        +---------------------------------+       
   search,  and C-R  will do a search in        | Hi! My name is                  |       Finally,  we type a  carriage  return
   the reverse direction.                       | T_ommy Tooth                     |      which moves the rest of the line down
                                                |                                 |       to the beginning of the next line.
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