From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "len" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Newbie: some key combinations don't work Date: 31 Jan 2007 09:29:31 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170264570.778597.22910@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170265286 3709 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2007 17:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:41:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 31 18:41:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HCJRf-0006ym-S9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:40:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HCJRf-00040k-Ah for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.80.249.154 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170264576 18399 127.0.0.1 (31 Jan 2007 17:29:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:29:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.10 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.80.249.154; posting-account=OLZGPgwAAAAFG1d-RQc96DiQhLSAQKJp Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145198 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:40804 Archived-At: Good Morning Trying to learn and use Emacs. I am running XP Professional and have downloaded and installed Emacs 21-3. I have printed a few references and cheat sheets. Things that I am finding very frustrating are when I try and use some of the commands I get totally different results. Examples: C-h causes backspace M-< and M-> to move to top and buttom of buffer just beep. etc I have read through the various news groups and appears that I may need to change keybinding (unsure of where) or make changes to my .emacs file. I would like to use Emacs as documented in manuals and reference material but keep hitting road block after road block of things that don't work as documented. Maybe this is due to the GUI or what ever. Could someone explain why this is happening and point me to somewhere to kind of setup my Emacs so as documented commands work. Len