Throughout this manual I have documented the key sequences you have to enter to make the editor perform a certain action. In fact, the key sequences are mapped to commands when they are typed and it is the command which performs the action.
Commands are simply pieces of Lisp code, usually with a unique name associated with that command. If you know the name of a command it is possible to invoke it using the Meta-x key sequence; simply type Meta-x command RET where command is the name of the command you wish to invoke.
For the sake of simplicity I have often referred to key sequences as
commands; what I actually mean is that the key sequence is bound to
the command. For example the key sequence Ctrl-x Ctrl-f opens
a file, in fact the key sequence Ctrl-x Ctrl-f is bound to the
command find-file, this Lisp function actually loads the file.
More detailed information about commands is available in the programmer's manual, see section Programming Jade.
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