From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "mudgen@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Commands not working Date: 27 Jan 2006 22:47:52 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1138430872.857436.247950@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> References: <1138372679.888754.11040@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1138376647.202909.184630@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138484036 13886 80.91.229.2 (28 Jan 2006 21:33:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 28 22:33:55 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 1F2xhd-0004BB-6Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:33:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2xO7-0000MN-TA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:13:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.193.10.14 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1138430877 27387 127.0.0.1 (28 Jan 2006 06:47:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:47:57 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.193.10.14; posting-account=btaX7w0AAABFwCR5Ue6IR9PqSo6c_p2r Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137258 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:32879 Archived-At: Maarten Bergvelt wrote: > In article <1138376647.202909.184630@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, > mudgen@gmail.com wrote: > > The M (alt) command don't seem to be working either. > > > This is Usenet, not a web forum (though it is also bastardised on > several web sites). You cannot know whether the reader can see or has > seen the previous posts, or, if they have been seen, whether the > reader remembers what they were about. > > _Always_ include context, trimming the parts that aren't relevant to > your follow-up. > > When using groups.google.com to reply to a Usenet article (better to > use a real newsreader), click on "show options" at the top of the > article, then click on the "Reply" at the bottom of the article > headers. This will quote the previous message in the accepted manner. > > I needed to think hard to remember hard you are repsonding to my > attempt to help you (I guess). Try Esc-x, in the emacs window of > course. > > -- > Maarten Bergvelt Oh, I just now got what you are saying. Thank you for this information, and I will include the text like you said.