Table of Contents

Distribution
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Preamble
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Bugs
Future Developments
1. An Introduction to Electronic Mail

1.1 Mail Headers
1.2 Mail Addresses
1.3 The Message Body

1.3.1 Body Parts
1.3.2 Content Type
1.3.3 Character Sets
1.3.4 Transfer Encoding
1.3.5 Content Disposition
1.3.6 Content Description

1.4 Signatures

2. The Organization of the Screen

2.1 Point
2.2 The Echo Area
2.3 The Header Lines
2.4 The Mode Line

3. Characters, Keys and Commands

3.1 Keys
3.2 Keys and Commands
3.3 Major Modes
3.4 Minor Modes

4. Entering Af

4.1 Command Line Arguments
4.2 Command Line Examples
4.3 Environment Variables
4.4 Exiting af

5. Basic af Commands

5.1 Reading Messages
5.2 Changing the Location of Point
5.3 Scrolling
5.4 Deleting Messages
5.5 Message and Position information
5.6 Quitting
5.7 Help
5.8 Numeric Arguments

6. Typeout
7. The Minibuffer

7.1 Echo Area Conflicts
7.2 Inserting Text
7.3 Deleting Text
7.4 Editing the Text
7.5 Dealing with Words
7.6 Completion

7.6.1 Completion Example
7.6.2 Completion Commands
7.6.3 Strict Completion

7.7 Minibuffer History

8. Composing and Sending Mail

8.1 Commands for Sending Mail
8.2 Initial Details for Composing Mail
8.3 Editing the Mail Message
8.4 Options After Editing the Message
8.5 Composing MIME Mail.

8.5.1 Internationalised Mail
8.5.2 Encoding Mail
8.5.3 International Headers
8.5.4 Non-Text Messages

8.6 Variables Related to Composing Mail
8.7 Defining and Using Mail Aliases

9. Running Commands by Name
10. Help

10.1 Documentation for a Key
10.2 Help by Command, Mode or Variable Name
10.3 Help for Lists of Things
10.4 Apropos
10.5 Other Help Commands

11. More Ways to Handle Messages

11.1 Saving Messages
11.2 Printing Messages
11.3 Piping Messages
11.4 Other Message-Handling Commands
11.5 Running Shell Commands from Af

12. The Mark and the Region

12.1 Setting the Mark
12.2 Operating on the Region
12.3 Using the Region in Typeout
12.4 Using the Region in the Minibuffer

13. Tags

13.1 Tag Concepts

13.1.1 System Tags
13.1.2 User Tags
13.1.3 Tag Lists
13.1.4 Tag Expressions

13.2 Setting and Removing Tags
13.3 Using Tags

14. Killing and Yanking

14.1 Killing Messages
14.2 Yanking Messages
14.3 Appending Kills
14.4 Yanking Earlier Kills
14.5 Killing and Yanking in the Minibuffer

15. Searching Mail Folders

15.1 Searching for Regular Expressions
15.2 Searching for Tagged Messages
15.3 Tagging Matching Messages
15.4 Syntax of Regular Expressions
15.5 Searching and Case

16. Sorting Messages
17. Narrowing
18. Folder Handling

18.1 File Names
18.2 Reading Folders Over a Network
18.3 Visiting Files
18.4 Pending Folders
18.5 Resynchronizing Buffers
18.6 Saving Files
18.7 Reverting a Buffer
18.8 Inserting a Folder

19. Using Multiple Buffers

19.1 Creating and Selecting Buffers
19.2 Listing Existing Buffers
19.3 Killing Buffers
19.4 Inserting a Buffer

20. Multiple Windows

20.1 Concepts of Af Windows
20.2 Creating and Using Windows
20.3 Deleting and Rearranging Windows

21. Customisation

21.1 Mime Configuration

21.1.1 Mailcap files
21.1.2 The Mime.types File
21.1.3 The Mime.charsets File

21.2 The Startup File, `~/.afrc'
21.3 Emulation
21.4 Variables
21.5 Keyboard Macros

21.5.1 Basic Use
21.5.2 Naming Keyboard Macros
21.5.3 Executing Macros with Variations

21.6 Customising Key Bindings

21.6.1 Keymaps
21.6.2 Prefix Keymaps
21.6.3 Local Keymaps
21.6.4 Changing Key Bindings Interactively

22. Afl

22.1 Basic Afl Concepts
22.2 Afl Data Types

22.2.1 Comments
22.2.2 Special Constants
22.2.3 Lists
22.2.4 Numbers
22.2.5 Characters
22.2.6 Strings
22.2.7 Symbols

22.3 Afl Primitive Functions

22.3.1 Quoting Forms
22.3.2 Controlling Program Flow
22.3.3 Configuring Af From Afl
22.3.4 Interacting With the Environment

22.4 Running Afl Programs
22.5 Examples of Afl Code

Glossary
Key (Character) Index
Command and Function Index
Variable Index
Concept Index