From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Rauchenwald Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie programmer beginning to use Emacs, Help! Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:56:47 +0100 Message-ID: <873au1gsz4.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197910841 6226 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2007 17:00:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:00:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 17 18:00:48 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 1J4JHy-0001dE-SP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:57:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4JHf-0003XJ-B6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J4JHO-0003Wm-KE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J4JHL-0003WR-40 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4JHK-0003WO-UM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:57:18 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J4JHK-0006fK-Dg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:57:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J4JH5-0001Zq-2J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:57:03 +0000 Original-Received: from 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at ([83.215.41.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:57:03 +0000 Original-Received: from its.sec by 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:57:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2eIj/UxAYBOFmBS5RRK/tWa5HsY= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:50148 Archived-At: Sean Ochoa writes: > Hey all. I'm sure you get this a lot for those adventurous enough to > venture out from windows (notepad-esc) text editors... but I'm totally > confused by the help files about how to use Emacs. Here are a few of > my questions, for starters: > > 1. What is the "Meta" key (I couldn't find a definition that makes > sense in documentation anywhere)? I'm using a HP Pavillion dv9428nr > laptop running win xp pro and Emacs v22.1.1 It is usually the Alt key. > 2. How to enter a command like ftp mysite.net user:admin@mysite.net > password:admin_password, so that I can work on files from my web > server (as a side note, does emacs support ftp 'save-as' to server?)? You'd use Tramp for that, but i'm not sure how well it works on windows. You'd open an ftp file like /ftp:foo@example.com:filename Emacs prompts you for a password and at least on GNU/Linux it works out of the box. It also supports various other things like ssh. Save as is simply C-x C-w as usual. > 3. What exactly is 'Dired Mode'? Directory editor, it is Emacs' version of a file manager. Not really comparable to Explorer because it is designed quite differently (and Dired is quite cool, believe me!) > A note for any answers: I've already read through what I could find > the the user manual, and I'm still stuck. What manual are you reading? C-h i m Emacs RET should open the info-Manual, and it is in my opinion written quite well. > Thanks for any additional assistance! > > - Sean Tom