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- From: kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com (Kevin Rodgers)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Re: Basic Commands for GNU
- Message-ID: <9209151608.AA24391@traffic>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 16:08:29 GMT
- References: <Sep.14.21.57.12.1992.2034@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Sep.14.21.57.12.1992.2034@ruhets.rutgers.edu> myadav@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Mahesh Yadav) writes:
- >
- > The other days I got an ftp site from one of you for the emacs
- >manual. The manual was 270 pages ! What a waste, especially for the
- >person who just want to know few basic commands. One of my friend has
- >a GNU Emacs reference card. I made it into a file and I am posting
- >here. I hope many of you will find it useful.
-
- The TeX source to the reference card that comes with the printed Emacs
- manual is in etc/refcard.tex. However, I think it would a good idea to
- include the reference card as a node in the Info documentation, for
- those sites which don't have TeX installed. If that's done, it could
- then be made more obviously accessible to novices by binding an
- additional key ("R") in the help-command keymap to a function that would
- invoke Info on the appropriate node:
-
- (defun help-with-refcard ()
- "*Select the Emacs command reference card."
- (interactive)
- (info)
- (Info-goto-node "(emacs)Refcard")
- (message "Type %s to return from the reference card"
- (substitute-command-keys "\\<Info-mode-map>\\[Info-exit]")))
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