Welcome to GNU Emacs, one component of the GNU/Linux operating system. Get help C-h (Hold down CTRL and press h) Emacs manual C-h r Browse manuals C-h i Emacs tutorial C-h t Undo changes C-x u Buy manuals C-h RET Exit Emacs C-x C-c Activate menubar M-` (`C-' means use the CTRL key. `M-' means use the Meta (or Alt) key. If you have no Meta key, you may instead type ESC followed by the character.) Useful tasks: Visit New File Open Home Directory Customize Startup Open *scratch* buffer GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.17) of 2013-04-24 on hive64 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type C-h C-w for full details. Emacs is Free Software--Free as in Freedom--so you can redistribute copies of Emacs and modify it; type C-h C-c to see the conditions. Type C-h C-o for information on getting the latest version. If an Emacs session crashed recently, type Meta-x recover-session RET to recover the files you were editing.