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From: greg@xios.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: u-emacs usage
Message-ID: <379@xios.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 09:26:49 EST
Article-I.D.: xios.379
Posted: Thu Jan  8 09:26:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 06:30:27 EST
References: <102@gilsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@xios.UUCP (Greg Franks)
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Organization: Xios Systems Corp., Ottawa, Ont.
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Keywords: HELP, documentation
Summary: 

My mailer barfed - so I am posting a followup instead....

In article <102@gilsys.UUCP> mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
>1)  I would like to know how to mark a section of text (a 'region' in emacs,
>I believe), and then write that region out to a new disk file,

As far as I know - select region, copy to new buffer, write buffer out.

>
>2)  I would like to know how to use regular expression in global search and
>replace,
>

I don't have pattern matching in my verion of uEmacs 3.7 - I think its in
3.8 though.

>3)  I would like to know how to have emacs go directly to a given line number
>in the text file (not upon entry, THAT I know how to do),
>

Easy, M- M-G, or ^U M-G

>4)  in general, I would like pointers to information which would permit me to
>learn to be a competent emacs user.

There was a manual sent out with the 3.7 sources.  Check the mod.sources 
archives.  Also note that 3.8 is coming out ``Real Soon Now''.  Stay tuned
to comp.emacs for further info (that's where I get mine!)

..greg