Advice: Common Actions

Theme: If I had to compare every text editor? What "number one" features, do I need to run it well enough, for basic use?

First, there are the primitives.

• Open File, Save File, Save As File, Close File, & Exit
• Read new file, Insert file
• How to print, Options you can change for printing, and such.
• Help System: Use of use, Can you find simple answers with little effort, Tutorial present
  

Then, there are the intermediate (utilitarian) uses.

• Search for word, Replace word, Regex search and replace
• Save Bookmark (location), Jump to bookmark
• Formatting Commands, if it makes sense. (Bold a word, underline, Capitalize letters, centering
  
• Clipboard Actions: Copy, Paste, Cut, Delete, Create new (temporary) file / buffer
• Pure Text options: line width, line re-formatting, indenting, outdenting
  

Lastly, the advanced features.

• Save different default settings into the Configuration file
• Changing start-up appearances: font size, default font, window location?, etc.
• Spell checking, abbreviation support, tie-in to other applications
  

Now, that I've gleaned several of the most primitive issues of XEmacs. It is time to start getting deeper. Perhaps, I'll just start tearing into each of these bullet items, one by one. Then, things will be clearer for jumping into deeper issues.

Platform: Linux
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