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Exercises

1. Make a TAGS file for one of your directories with HTML documents, C, C++, or Java files and

a. Jump around in it using M-.--that is, search for definitions in it.

b. -When jumping from use to definition, you might want to set marks using the commands from sam-lib.el so you can get back to the use when you are finished reading the definition. Try it!

c. When you have made a backup of your files, try to replace all the occurrences of some text in all the files using tags-query-replace.

2. Go to the top of your home directory and search through all your files (recursively) for specific text (for example, Emacs).

3. Create a bookmark at the end of your .emacs file, so you can get to this location fast.

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