From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can't get "help"
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:26:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hck0soh9.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: RvwXi.1671$Qr.873@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net
"cycjec"<cycjec@yahoo.com> writes:
> this is the emacs that's installed on a FreeBSD system.
>
> I get the opening msg "Hold down Control and press h"
> but when I do that it just eats up the msg about "this
> buffer is for blah blah blah" one character at a time,
> starting at the end.
Are you using Emacs in X, on a console, or a terminal emulator? Which
version of Emacs (21, 22?)
Try f1 for help instead of C-h, your terminal may be sending C-h as
delete. F1 C-f gets you the FAQ
(hopefully you understand the above key notation: "C-x" means "hold
down Control key and press 'x'")
HTH
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-05 3:56 can't get "help" cycjec
2007-11-05 15:26 ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
2007-11-05 17:19 ` cycjec
2007-11-05 19:33 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-11-05 18:07 ` cycjec
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