This document is intended to provide you with the basic information you need to use the emacs text editor from your WAM/Glue or OIT cluster UNIX account. This document assumes that you are using your account from some kind of terminal window either by dialing in from home, by using a Mac or a PC in a computer lab or office at the University, or by using a terminal window generated by the xterm program on a Sun Ultra workstation. Information on how to connect to the OIT host computers with a terminal program is available on-line at http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/applications/terminal.

This document will not go into great detail regarding all of emacs it will, however, give a sufficient introduction to emacs for the casual user, and will help point you in the right direction for learning more about some of the more advanced features of this environment. The emacs tutorial function also makes more information is available to the user.

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