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Harley Hahn's
Emacs Field
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List of Chapters
and Appendixes

Detailed Table
of Contents

Buying the Book

Endorsements

Lists of Command
Summaries

Indexes
• Important topics
• General
• Key sequences
• Variables and
Functions

• Unix: Keys, Files
and Commands

Errors and
Corrections

INDEXES
0. Most Important Topics
1. General Index
2. Emacs Key Sequences
3. Emacs Variables and Functions
4. Unix: Keys, Files and Commands

Index of Unix Keys, Files and Commands

Unix Keys

# (superuser shell prompt)
$ (Bash shell prompt)
% (C-Shell prompt)
- (command options)
. (current directory)
.. (parent directory)
/ (root directory)
| (pipe symbol)
~ (home directory within shell prompt)

<Backspace>
<Ctrl>
<Ctrl-C>
<Ctrl-D>
<Ctrl-U>
<Ctrl-W>
<Ctrl-X>
<Enter>
<Left>
<Right>

Unix Files

/dev/null
/dev/random
/proc/meminfo
/proc/sys/kernel/hostname

Unix Commands

cat
cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
cd
chmod
cmp
cp
du
file
find
fmt
head
less
less /proc/cpuinfo
less /proc/meminfo
logout
ls
ls -R
mkdir
mv
od
pwd
rm
sort
sudo
sudo ls -R / | less
sudo ls -R / | wc -l
tail
touch
tree-d
users
wc -l
whereis
who
INDEXES
0. Most Important Topics
1. General Index
2. Emacs Key Sequences
3. Emacs Variables and Functions
4. Unix: Keys, Files and Commands

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