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 Commands for Human Languages
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    The term "text" has two widespread meanings in our area of the
 computer field.  One is data that is a sequence of characters.  Any file
 that you edit with Emacs is text, in this sense of the word.  The other
 meaning is more restrictive: a sequence of characters in a human
 language for humans to read (possibly after processing by a text
 formatter), as opposed to a program or commands for a program.
 
    Human languages have syntactic/stylistic conventions that can be
 supported or used to advantage by editor commands: conventions involving
 words, sentences, paragraphs, and capital letters.  This chapter
 describes Emacs commands for all of these things.  There are also
 commands for "filling", which means rearranging the lines of a
 paragraph to be approximately equal in length.  The commands for moving
 over and killing words, sentences and paragraphs, while intended
 primarily for editing text, are also often useful for editing programs.
 
    Emacs has several major modes for editing human-language text.  If
 the file contains text pure and simple, use Text mode, which customizes
 Emacs in small ways for the syntactic conventions of text.  Outline mode
 provides special commands for operating on text with an outline
 structure.
 
    For text which contains embedded commands for text formatters, Emacs
 has other major modes, each for a particular text formatter.  Thus, for
 input to TeX, you would use TeX mode.  For input to nroff, use Nroff
 mode.
 
    Instead of using a text formatter, you can edit formatted text in
 WYSIWYG style ("what you see is what you get"), with Enriched mode.
 Then the formatting appears on the screen in Emacs while you edit.

 
* Words               Moving over and killing words.
* Sentences           Moving over and killing sentences.
* Paragraphs          Moving over paragraphs.
* Pages               Moving over pages.
* Filling             Filling or justifying text.
* Case                Changing the case of text.
* Text Mode           The major modes for editing text files.
* Outline Mode        Editing outlines.
* TeX Mode            Editing input to the formatter TeX.
* Nroff Mode          Editing input to the formatter nroff.
* Formatted Text      Editing formatted text directly in WYSIWYG fashion.

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