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From: simard@loral.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Novice user questions
Message-ID: <384@loral.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 15:11:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 15:11:58 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 08:23:54 EDT
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA
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[Forgive me, brothers, but I like TECO]

I am an absolute novice with EMACS, and have a little problem understanding
my way around it.  A few questions:

How do you execute the 'defun' function?  The manual I have shows a
number of examples of user-defined MLisp functions (that's still
a mystery to me in itself!), but says only 'execute defun'.  The
only way I know of to execute anything not bound to keys is with
the ESC-x sequence, which only allows a single line command.  Where
to from there?

Next question:

If I wish to do any iterative functions (example: add a single, constant,
character to the beginnings of several lines, requiring manually
, ^N (next line), ^A (to beginning of line), 
is there a way to do this other than defining an MLisp function to
do it?

Any help will be enormously appreciated.
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[     I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet     ]
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Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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