Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition

Table B-4. Support for Text Processing

Table B-4. Support for Text Processing

Package	Description	Startup
text-mode	Major mode for editing unprocessed text files	text-mode, suffixes .txt, .text, .article, .letter, and files starting with /tmp/Re, Message and a digit (mail), /tmp/fol (news)
sgml-mode	Major mode for editing structured documents (including HTML and XML)[101]	html-mode, xml-mode, sgml-mode, suffixes .htm, .html, .shtml, .xml, .xsl, .dtd, .sgm, .sgml
tex-mode	Major mode for editing TEX and LATEX files	tex-mode, latex-mode, suffixes .tex, .ins, .TeX, .ltx, .sty, .cls, .clo, .bbl
bibtex	Major mode for editing bibliography files	bibtex-mode, suffix .bib
refbib	Convert bibliography files in refer format to bibtex format	r2b-convert-buffer
nroff	Major mode for editing nroff and troff text files	nroff-mode, suffixes .mm, .me, .ms, .man, or any digit following a period (manual page source)
scribe	Major mode for editing Scribe text files	scribe-mode, suffix .mss

Table B-5. Emulations for other editors

Table B-5. Emulations for other editors

Package	Description	Startup
vi	Major mode for emulating the vi editor	vi-mode
vip	Another major mode for emulating vi	vip-mode
edt	Function to set key bindings to emulate the VAX/VMS EDT editor	edt-emulation-on

Table B-6. Interfaces to operating system utilities

Table B-6. Interfaces to operating system utilities[102]

Package	Description	Startup
shell	Major mode for interacting with the command-line shell.	shell-mode
find-dired	Run the find command and use dired on the resulting list of files.	find-dired
tar-mode	Access files inside a tar archive through a dired-like interface.	tar-mode, suffix .tar
arc-mode	Access files in several other archive formats through a dired-like interface.	archive-mode, suffixes .arc, .zip, .lzh, .zoo, .ear, .jar, .war, as well as capitalized variants; .sxd, .sxm, .sxi, .sxc, .sxw
lpr	Print the contents of a buffer or region.	lpr-buffer, print-buffer, lpr-region, print-region
sort	Sort the contents of a buffer.	sort-columns, sort-fields, sort-lines, sort-numeric-fields, sort-paragraphs, sort-regexp-fields
spell, ispell	Various tools for checking spelling.	See Chapter 3
diff, ediff	Tools to help in comparing files.	See Chapter 12

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See Chapter 8 for an extensive discussion of working with markup languages in Emacs.

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Some of these will be useful on Windows only if you've installed a Unix compatibility package like Cygwin (see http://www.cygwin.com).