From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maarten Bergvelt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Commands not working Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Department of Mathematics, UIUC. Message-ID: References: <1138372679.888754.11040@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: bergv@uiuc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138388030 3451 80.91.229.2 (27 Jan 2006 18:53:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 27 19:53:49 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 1F2YjE-0002Lv-Kz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:53:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2YGs-0000os-Ms for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:24:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.ks.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bolmikolke.math.uiuc.edu Original-X-Trace: news.ks.uiuc.edu 1138381942 920 130.126.108.244 (27 Jan 2006 17:12:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news+abuse@ks.uiuc.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:12:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137253 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:32873 Archived-At: In article , Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > 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.) Boy, you are good, I would never have thought this was the problem. (Of course, I never start emacs from a terminal since I always have my emacs open). Esc-x instead of M-x should also help. -- Maarten Bergvelt