There is a man page available with:
man emacs
A Postscript file of the
reference manual is available. If your UNIX system has been installed with
AFS and has links pointing to ASIS (see details on ASIS in section 
),
then you should find this postscript file (nearly 300 pages)
in the directory /afs/cern.ch/asis/share/usr.local/doc/gnu or by anonymous
ftp at asisftp:/pub/doc/gnu.
A very good book about emacs is 'The GNU Emacs Manual' by R.M.Stallman (August 1993)[5]. It covers the first basics and the more advanced features of emacs. It is available from the UCO; there is also a good emacs reference card, also available at the UCO.