Common Commands

In a window environment, the common commands are available via the menus. At CUED there are 2 sets of menus to choose from, one more extensive than the other. The bottom item of the Edit menu lets you flip between them. Many of the menu items also have control-key equivalents which are displayed in the menu. For instance the File menu contains an item . It's worth learning the short cuts for common operations, even if you're at a graphics terminal. Here's a list of some useful ones.

With `incremental searching', searching commences as soon as you begin to type in the target string. Hitting the Backspace key will remove the last letter from the current target string unless you have repeatedly used a search command with the same target, in which case emacs will go back to the last instance of the target found.