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From: "cycjec"<cycjec@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: can't get "help"
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:56:33 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <RvwXi.1671$Qr.873@newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net> (raw)


 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.

 I can get a list of commands in an old Mandrake install
 but the cursor seems to be stuck in the scratch buffer,
 I can't scroll down the list.

 I have a book. I have been looking in it but can't 
 find what I want.

 I also can't find how to move to the top or the end
 of a buffer. 

 Any help immensely appreciated. 

             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-05  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-05  3:56 cycjec [this message]
2007-11-05 15:26 ` can't get "help" Joel J. Adamson
2007-11-05 17:19   ` cycjec
2007-11-05 19:33     ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-11-05 18:07   ` cycjec

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