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I have been using Emacs for one week, so all of it is really new for me.
I saw that there are two types of commands in order to navigate in emacs : - Some "tabs" on the top - Commands like shortcuts
Nevertheless, my tabs are missing. Do you have a clue how to activate them ?
Tab functionality ala your web browser is provided by an external package tabbar-mode. The source code is on github, and there is an extensive page about customizing it on the EmacsWiki. In fact the first Google Search hit for "emacs tabs" points to the EmacsWiki page. It's also available as a package via Melpa.
Once installed you can toggle it on or off with M-x tabbar-mode. To turn it on at startup you can put the following in your init file.
(require 'tabbar)
(tabbar-mode 1)
If you're using Aquamacs, it's enabled by default and you can disable it at startup by putting the following in your init file.
(when (featurep 'aquamacs)
(tabbar-mode -1))
tabbar-mode originated with Aquamacs, it would be interesting to see some documentation linking David Ponce (the original author of tabbar.el) with the Aquamacs project as it relates to that library.
emacs -Q(no init file)?