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01-28-2004

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Even if you could display line numbers in emacs, how would you know which line you were trying to skip to.. just guess which one is approximately "in the middle of the buffer"? ... and is there even a command in emacs that allows you to skip to a specified line?

Maybe it'd be easier to search for a string than to skip to a line number...

Take a look at this tutorial:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~wjk/UnixInt...html#emacs-6-3

Quote:

6.3.6 Quick reference for emacs

Cursor movement:

C-a beginning of line
C-e end of line
C-< top of document
C-> end of document
M-x goto-line Go to line
C-v page forward
M-v page backward

Deleting and moving text:

Backspace delete character before cursor
(subject to modification of .emacs)
C-d delete character under cursor
M-d delete word
C-k delete to end of line(s)
(restore with C-y)
C-SPC set mark
C-w delete from mark to cursor
(restore with C-y)

Search and replace:

C-s incremental search forward
C-r incremental search backward
C-% query replace
M-x replace-string <ENTER> <searchstr> <ENTER> <replstr>

Miscellaneous:

C-x u undo
C-x C-s save file
C-x C-f find file
C-x 2 2 windows
C-x 1 1 window
C-x o switch between windows
C-x b switch buffers
M-q reformat paragraph
C-x C-c quit

Useful customisable keys (configured using the provided .emacs file):

C-x g goto line
C-x c compile program (useful with C-x 2)
C-x C-u open Unix shell (useful with C-x 2)
C-x a repeat command
C-x m manual entry

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NAME

       rcs-checkin - check files into RCS

SYNOPSIS

       rcs-checkin [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       rcs-checkin is a helper script for checking files into RCS.  This program is distributed with GNU Emacs.

       This  program converts files with an old Emacs-style version history for use with the Emacs 19 version control interface VC, which likes to
       use RCS as its back end.

       For each file to be processed, the script looks for Emacs version files related to it. These files are checked in as deltas, oldest  first,
       so that the contents of the file itself becomes the latest revision in the master.

       The  first line of each file is used as its description.  The file itself is not deleted, as under VC with vc-keep-workfiles at its default
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       workfile  is  checked in again as the latest version.  This is probably not quite what was wanted, and is the main reason VC doesn't simply
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       files (with names containing ~) are ignored.

OPTIONS

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SEE ALSO

       The  Emacs  version  control  interface is documented in the GNU Emacs manual, which  you  can  read  using Info, either from Emacs or as a
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