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The following typographical conventions are used in these articles when illustrating either shell or Emacs commands.
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Key Strokes |
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command-name |
literal text or user value |
Mono-spaced font text
indicates characters that are to be entered as shown;
italic text
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TAB RET ESC DO | key-stroke | Press the key with
label as shown.
The return key is often labeled
as ENTER. Use the keyboard
map for your terminal emulator to locate VT
function keys such
as DO, FIND,
INSERT_HERE, etc.
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UP DWN LFT RGHT SPC | key-stroke | The cursor control arrow keys and
space bar.
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C-x |
control char | Hold the CTRL key and press
the letter X. |
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ESC u |
meta char | Quickly press and release the
ESC key then
press the letter U. (Don't let the ESC key
auto-repeat; ESC ESC is a command!) In Emacs the ESC
key is called the 'Meta' key. On most keyboards,
CTRL+[ can also be used as the
Meta key and might be more convenient to reach. |
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C-x C-s |
key-seq | Hold the CTRL key and press
the letter X then S. |
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C-x s |
key-seq | Hold the CTRL key and press
the letter X, then release the CTRL key
and enter a lowercase S. |
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ESC C-e |
key-seq | Press the Meta key first, then enter the
control character shown; Emacs documentation
calls this a 'Control-Meta' character even if that may
not be the order of key entry. |
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DO func-name |
command | Press the DO key on your VT terminal
keyboard (or the equivalent 'function key' defined by
your terminal emulator) followed by the literal name of an Emacs
function (command). A space may be used wherever a hyphen
appears in the function. |
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C-a |
(alternatives) | Alternate key strokes to accomplish
the same command are shown as separate lines; i.e. press
CTRL+A or CTRL+X followed by the
letter B. |
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l (el) |
named character | Key names may also be noted parenthetically, i.e. (el) (one) (oh) (zero), if there is a possibility of confusion. | ||
Terminal sessions are illustrated as follows with user input underlined:
unix> ls -la total 40 drwxr-xr-x 2 wfc users 8192 Feb 16 19:38 . drwxr-x--x 5 wfc users 8192 Feb 16 19:36 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 wfc users 1464 Feb 16 19:38 .hidden-file -rw-r--r-- 1 wfc users 1189 Feb 16 19:37 my-file.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 wfc users 1648 Feb 16 19:37 num-lines
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