You are reading the edmacs tutorial.  Because you will be repeatedly
asked to type in commands at various points in this tutorial, it is 
suggested that your first reading of this file be on a CRT screen.

All commands are simple:

If you can write a character on a piece of paper, and it is on your keyboard,
then just typing the key itself is the command to insert that character.

But there must be more to an editor than just something that lets you
insert text.  The other commands are on either "control" or  "ESCAPE"
Characters. 

	Try This now: Press the Key on your keyboard that is marked
"control" (it may instead say "CNTRL" or "CTL").  While you have the
control key down, gently Type an F.   See what it does?  You have just
used the command "forward character". It moves forward a character.

The combination of holding down the control key and typing an "F"
is called typing a "control-F".  Control-F is the command "forward
character".

Please Type "Control-V" now. To do this, hold down the control key, and
press V, and release both.  Do  this now:

The command Control-V is called "View Next screen". It allows you to
see what is below the edge of the screen. You will need to type this
whenever you want to get to the next screenful of the tutorial.

Remember the Control-V command.
To see more, type it again. (Now's a good time)

Now we get to some other control characters. To abbreviate, we will
use C-V to mean Control-V,  C-F to mean control F, and this will be used for
all Control characters. 

Moving The Cursor!

	The following picture graphically shows the commands used for
getting from any character to the next or previous character on the line,
and from any line to the next line


			 Previous Line, C-P
				|
				|
   Backward, C-B  . . .  Current character . . . Forward, C-F
				|
				|
			  Next Line, C-N

These commands move the cursor around from wherever it happens to be.
Try each of them now. And see what happens. Notice that C-F is for forward,
C-B for backward, C-N for next, and C-P for previous. These Control 
characters were used because their letter parts are the same as the first
character of the command they perform. This is true of Most EDMACS commands.
(by the way, there is a name for this: C-N is said to be "mnemonic"
for Next, just as C-B is said to be mnemonic for backwards.) Because of
this, EDMACS commands are easy to remember.

ESCAPE commands:
There is a key on your terminal marked "ESC" or"ESCAPE". When  you type an
ESCAPE as a prefix to another character, the combination is called an
ESCAPE- character. EDMACS uses a whole bunch of ESCAPE-characters for
commands. One example is ESCAPE-V (or <ESC>V for short). Try it now to 
see what it does. PRESS the escape key, and then the letter V.

To learn more about EDMACS, feel free to use any commands you want to now.
You can't harm this file, as it is only a copy of the original.

For a list of commands, use the EDMACS command <ESC> H


To leave this tutorial, use C-X C-Z.  That is to say, type control X
followed by control Z.