You are looking at the Emacs tutorial.
-Emacs commands generally involve the CONTROL key (sometimes labelled
-CTRL or CTL) or the META key (sometimes labelled EDIT or ALT). Rather than
+Emacs commands generally involve the CONTROL key (sometimes labeled
+CTRL or CTL) or the META key (sometimes labeled EDIT or ALT). Rather than
write out META or CONTROL each time we want you to prefix a character,
we'll use the following abbreviations:
M-<chr> means hold the META or EDIT or ALT key down while typing <chr>.
If there is no META key or equivalent, type <ESC>, release it,
then type the character <chr>. "<ESC>" stands for the
- key labelled "ESC".
+ key labeled "ESC".
Important note: to end the Emacs session, type C-x C-c. (Two characters.)
The characters ">>" at the left margin indicate directions for you to