From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Ochoa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Newbie programmer beginning to use Emacs, Help! Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:11:59 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197901858 31328 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2007 14:30:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:30:58 +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 15:31:08 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 1J4GzW-0001XX-Hu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:30:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4GzC-0008Ax-Ld for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:30:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.15.212.207 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1197821520 24445 127.0.0.1 (16 Dec 2007 16:12:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.15.212.207; posting-account=JR1uzgoAAABmKRUU3LfWuHY3xg1U69hF User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154685 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:28:47 -0500 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:50143 Archived-At: 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 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?)? 3. What exactly is 'Dired Mode'? A note for any answers: I've already read through what I could find the the user manual, and I'm still stuck. Thanks for any additional assistance! - Sean