From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: minibuffer output to buffer Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:40:43 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87y7q64lc4.fsf@hans.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164008485 28794 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2006 07:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:41:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 20 08:41:20 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 1Gm3mK-0001EZ-2O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:41:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gm3mJ-0002qH-Jo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gm3m4-0002oc-UV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:41:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gm3m0-0002ld-HZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:41:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gm3lz-0002lA-Gl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:40:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.186] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gm3lz-0002hm-5T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:40:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.65.209] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu5) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML25U-1Gm3lt06DA-00039P; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:40:53 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CF01E7637E; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:40:44 +0100 (CET) Original-To: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) In-Reply-To: (David Combs's message of "Sun\, 19 Nov 2006 23\:28\:11 +0000 \(UTC\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 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:38835 Archived-At: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > In article , > Dieter Wilhelm wrote: >>Gary Wessle writes: >> >>> how can I get the output which shows in the mini buffer into the >>> current buffer. >>> example >>> M-x emacs-version shows in minibuffer. >> >>With a numeric prefix of M-x. For example: >> >>I'm used to press the ALT key while typing - then x (M-- M-x) >>or C-u M-x >>or C-1 M-x >>or M-1 M-x >> > > THANK YOU!!! Welcome! > > But -- what's this use of the ALT key? > Does nothing (as prefix) for me -- msg still goes to minibuf (or whatever > it's called). > (I think minibuffer is correct.) That is sad, because the Alt key is most efficient when the following shortcut also starts with an Alt key. It worked so far for me on any IBM PC. > Now, I'm using a SUN keyboard (with control-key in "right", > "old-time" location, left of "a"), on sunBlade-100, Solaris 9. > > What effect might that have (on my ALT working differently > from yours)? > Sorry, I don't know, hope some guy with Solaris experience will answer this. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany