3.6. Built-in Emacs Tutorial

Emacs comes with a built-in, interactive tutorial. We highly recommend working through the tutorial to further strengthen your Emacs skills.

The tutorial can be reached by launching Emacs using the emacs command and then following the instructions on the Emacs welcome screen. With some terminal emulators, the shortcut used to start the tutorial is C-h t (i.e., type C-h, release CTRL, then type t). If that does not work, then use the shortcut that appears next to “Emacs tutorial” on the welcome screen.

Note

If you’re on Windows, you will need to make sure you have followed the instructions to make backspace work properly before the built-in tutorial will work properly.