From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Commands not working Supersedes: Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:43:07 +0100 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <1138372679.888754.11040@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138389065 7739 80.91.229.2 (27 Jan 2006 19:11:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 27 20:10:58 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 1F2Yzg-0006Vh-RA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:10:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2XFU-0002O6-Q1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:19:00 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1138379604 2353 129.241.15.140 (27 Jan 2006 16:33:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:33:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Key: sha1:yfVLHvPl2U7uFG/tpUTMXkfBMZg= Cancel-Lock: sha1:h+Ziwy46DNHu9Rpwp4G0IqFhg4w= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137252 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:32875 Archived-At: Hmm, I think the other people responding haven't read this very carefully, so they missed important clues in the original post. + "mudgen@gmail.com" : | The commands don't seem to be working for me. For instance, I start up | Emacs. Then I try to exit so I type: C-x C-c and my screen just blinks | and nothing happens. I do it again and my screen just blinks and | nothing happens, I do it again and same thing, I do it again and I get | this new screen that starts off saying " This buffer is for notes you | don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.", A-HA! So, you started emacs from a terminal window, nothing much happened in said terminal window, you typed all these commands in the terminal window, which doesn't work because emacs, being an X client if it can and you're not telling it not to do so, likes to open its own window. So go back to square one: In your terminal window, type "emacs &" (without the quotes of course) and hit RETURN. Now wait for the new window to pop up: The one you described as a "new screen" above. That window IS your emacs! Type your commands to that window, NOT to the original terminal window. Everything should now work as expected. (If not, make sure the new window has keyboard focus, that is, that keypresses go to the emacs window. What you need to be sure of that depends on your window manager and how it is configured. If placing the mouse cursor over the window is insufficient, click on it.) -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen - Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is of getting closer to the truth. -- C.P. Snow