Newbie Questions:

Newbie Questions:

[Daniel Anderson]

Hi,

I've been trying to figure out emacs for a while
now and there are a couple of things that have
been bothering me:

1)  How do I access the menu when I'm running
console e-macs?  (i.e. buffers, file, etc.)

2)  When I C-h a help and the split window goes
below the screen how do I read it?

3)  Is it possible to configure emacs as a mail
client that uses POP?

Thanks in advance,

Dan Anderson
Great Lakes Industries
Chief Lab Rat and Helper Monkey

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Re: Newbie Questions:

[Roman A. Lagunov]

>>>>> "DA" ==> Daniel Anderson  writes:

 DA> Hi, I've been trying to figure out emacs for a while now and
 DA> there are a couple of things that have been bothering me:

 DA> 1) How do I access the menu when I'm running console e-macs?
 DA> (i.e. buffers, file, etc.)

 Try to press F10 key.

 DA> 2) When I C-h a help and the split window goes below the screen
 DA> how do I read it?

 C-M-v works fine for me.

 DA> 3) Is it possible to configure emacs as a mail client that uses
 DA> POP?

 Yes, try to use Gnus.

-- 
  Roman

Re: Newbie Questions:

[Tim X]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Anderson <dan3487@yahoo.com> writes:

 Daniel> Hi, I've been trying to figure out emacs for a while now and
 Daniel> there are a couple of things that have been bothering me:

 Daniel> 1) How do I access the menu when I'm running console e-macs?
 Daniel> (i.e. buffers, file, etc.)

You can't directly. You can get another window popup which has a sort
of menu in it with keys you can press to get the items. I think the
normal key binding is M-`

 Daniel> 2) When I C-h a help and the split window goes below the
 Daniel> screen how do I read it?

C-M-v should work.

 Daniel> 3) Is it possible to configure emacs as a mail client that
 Daniel> uses POP?

Yes, there are a few emacs mail clients which will do
this. Personally, I use VM which supports pop3, imap and connections
over SSL.

Tim
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