From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New user - keybinding issues Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:16:33 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1182323793.909053.56350@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com> References: <1182272037.409179.301000@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182325240 19836 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 07:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 09:40:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0unu-0005KB-Qo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0unu-000507-6t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.67.23.108 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1182323794 22901 127.0.0.1 (20 Jun 2007 07:16:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:16:34 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1182272037.409179.301000@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.67.23.108; posting-account=8KzG7gwAAAA0clYx1NZ8h9w0zYXWE6px Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149588 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:45176 Archived-At: On 19 Jun, 17:53, kaldrenon wrote: > Hi all, > > I just downloaded and installed GNU Emacs 21.3 on my WinXP box at work Firstly, Emacs 22.1 has been released recently, so it might be better to start from there. > Anyway, I'm still very new, so I'm sorry if this comes as a really > dumb question, but: C-h is supposed to be help-command, but when I > type C-h, it instead kills the character before the cursor. Did you copy a .emacs file from somewhere? There is a variable to set to get this behaviour, since some old terminals send C-h characters for the backspace or delete key. But the Windows port of Emacs always gets its keyboard messages unfiltered, so you shouldn't set that. In general, your .emacs file should contain your personal preferences, copying someone else's is not a good idea.