From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "mudgen@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Commands not working Date: 27 Jan 2006 06:37:59 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1138372679.888754.11040@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138379964 2486 80.91.229.2 (27 Jan 2006 16:39:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:39:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 27 17:39:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2WcO-0000VO-Fg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:38:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2WdL-0001Im-HN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:39:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.193.10.14 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1138372685 17270 127.0.0.1 (27 Jan 2006 14:38:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:38:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.193.10.14; posting-account=btaX7w0AAABFwCR5Ue6IR9PqSo6c_p2r Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137247 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32867 Archived-At: Hello, I'm brand new to emacs. I just installed a linux slackware 10.2 onto my computer. I have GNU Emacs 21.4.2. The commands don't seem to be working for me. For instance, I start up Emacs. Then I try to exit so I type: C-x C-c and my screen just blinks and nothing happens. I do it again and my screen just blinks and nothing happens, I do it again and same thing, I do it again and I get this new screen that starts off saying " This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.", I do it again and my screen just blinks. I do it again and then Emacs exits. That's an awful lot of work just to exit! Well, mostly none of the commands seem to be working. I know that C-x C-c means to hold down Control and type x, and then to hold down control and type c. When I type C-h to get some help, it just seems to work as it is the delete key, deleting text. Looking for help on the internet, I found this in an Emacs FAQ: "Your system administrator may have changed `C-h' to act like to deal with local keyboards." From here: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text Well, C-h is acting like the delete key for me. I'm thinking that my keyboard may not be set up correctly and so is interfering with Emacs commands. If this is true I have no idea what to do about it or how to fix it. Does anybody have any suggestions?