From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie help Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:17:05 +0200 Message-ID: <83ei77wx8e.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297887795 12820 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2011 20:23:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:23:15 +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 Feb 16 21:23:10 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppnty-0004ql-4D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:23:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ppnot-0007It-Oo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53296 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpnoA-0007BW-Nw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:17:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppno7-0005zo-F3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:17:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:52885) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppno7-0005zg-8H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:17:03 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LGQ00H0085I5Y00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:17:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.187.92]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LGQ00GOQ8CCKKE0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:17:01 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:79166 Archived-At: > From: Nelson Teixeira > Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:14:06 -0300 > > I started recently to use Emacs and am learning the basic commands. So I > haven't customized it in any way. Just installed it. > But when I use de C-x Del command to kill to the beggining of the sentence, > it open directory listing instead. > The command I want to use is backward-kill-sentence, and in help (C-h f) > says it's bounded to C-x DEL. Anyone knows why it's calling this other > function ? When you say "DEL", you actually press what key? It's not 3 keys D, E, L. Rather, it's a key labeled "DEL". On modern keyboards, if you don't have a key labeled "DEL", it could be the Backspace key instead.