From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lawrence mitchell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: register use Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:57:54 +0100 Organization: funfunfun Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031850964 32579 127.0.0.1 (12 Sep 2002 17:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17pXZT-0008TI-00 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:16:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17pXZc-00038t-00; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:16:12 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!m346-mp1.cvx1-b.swa.dial.ntli.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: m346-mp1.cvx1-b.swa.dial.ntli.net (213.105.233.90) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1031850061 210744 213.105.233.90 (16 [97657]) X-No-Yes: No Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.90 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6aaTpVihBsG9sUvV66ooClauJcE= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104842 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1397 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1397 Richard White wrote: > I'm trying to make use of the registers in GNU Emacs but when I run > the command set-register the minibuffer says there is no match > (Despite apropos listing it). I'm using version 20.2.1; does this > version have register use enabled and if so how do I get it to work > (please)? set-register isn't an interactive function, i.e. you can't call it via M-x or through a keybinding. The Emacs manual describes how to use registers in far more detail than I ever could, see the Info node "(emacs)Registers", you can get there by evaluating (Info-goto-node "(emacs)Registers") in Emacs. -- lawrence mitchell