Sams Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours

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Exercises

1. Find out the name of the keymap that C-h accesses.

2. Find out the commands in the C-h keymap.

3. Can you find the keymap for fundamental-mode? Find from the Emacs info pages why the fundamental-mode is so limited. (See C-h i and search for "fundamental.*mode".)

4. Suppose you are already accustomed to the Emacs way of asking for help with C-h prefix key and you want to take the f1 key to another use. How do you bind the key f1 to call the command copy-region-as-kill?

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