Practical Emacs Tutorial

This tutorial is designed for writers, scientists, engineers, to get started on emacs quickly. Each page teaches you something practical you can use right away. No emacs jargons. No need programing experience.

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;;; coffee-mode.el --- Major mode to edit CoffeeScript files in Emacs
;; Major thanks to http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_syntax_coloring.html
;; the instructions.

—Chris Wanstrath (co-founder of Github) 2010-10-08 At http://github.com/defunkt/coffee-mode/blob/master/coffee-mode.el

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