From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fork Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1313999734.92604.YahooMailClassic@web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314033698 21941 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2011 17:21:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:21:38 +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 Aug 22 19:21:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYBn-0004om-3c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:21:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48184 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvY8A-0004vc-Kt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:17:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvY85-0004q4-TT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvY7z-00049p-EK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvY7z-00046p-7n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QvY7W-0002hC-6X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:17:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 198.239.99.92 ([198.239.99.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:17:06 +0200 Original-Received: from forkandwait by 198.239.99.92 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:17:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 198.239.99.92 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82005 Archived-At: yahoo.de> writes: > so I have to switch to console mode with "emacs -nw". Print this out and put it next to your monitor before you login to wherever: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/emacs.html Learn how to use emacs as it was designed, rather than try to make it into something visual. You will probably come to like it.