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(efaq)Basic editing

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I'm just starting Emacs; how do I do basic editing?
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   Type `C-h t' to invoke the self-paced tutorial.  Just typing `C-h'
enters the help system.

   Your system administrator may have changed `C-h' to act like <DEL>
to deal with local keyboards.  You can use `M-x help-for-help' instead
to invoke help.  To discover what key (if any) invokes help on your
system, type `M-x where-is <RET> help-for-help <RET>'.  This will print
a comma-separated list of key sequences in the echo area.  Ignore the
last character in each key sequence listed.  Each of the resulting key
sequences invokes help.

   Emacs help works best if it is invoked by a single key whose value
should be stored in the variable `help-char'.

   There is also a WWW-based tutorial for Emacs 18, much of which is
also relevant for later versions of Emacs, available at

   `http://kufacts.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/writeups/misc/emacsguide.html'