From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: disable mouse input Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:04:09 -0700 Message-ID: <2A9714B9943D48EAA5963C18E5484ACB@us.oracle.com> References: <25D3A1F4-424F-48A4-AB76-CA71FB153E95@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350187471 11502 80.91.229.3 (14 Oct 2012 04:04:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:04:31 +0000 (UTC) To: "'David Combs'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 14 06:04:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TNFRO-0002Jo-03 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:04:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TNFRG-0007mx-Q0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37409) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TNFRB-0007mr-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:04:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TNFRA-0002yq-9b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:45504) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TNFRA-0002yg-3F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q9E44Kxa007735 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:04:21 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9E44JnC019689 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:04:19 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt111.oracle.com (abhmt111.oracle.com [141.146.116.63]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q9E44Iiv016845; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:04:18 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:04:18 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ac2po8TKNjjFnfT3TY+NQyYFE88RYgAHFKew X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87256 Archived-At: > In article , > Drew Adams wrote: Huh? There is nothing in your message that cites anything I wrote - it cites nothing written by anyone, in fact. So please do not introduce your message that way, as it is misleading. What you write is presumably to someone else and apparently has nothing to do with me or anything I have written. > Please, take the handy emacs "tutorial", which is trivially > easy to get into from the middle of emacs: simply do > Control-H and then T (for tutorial). Thanks. I followed the tutorial for the first time in the mid 1980s, and I have done so again several times since then, among other reasons to suggest improvements. > I believe (it's been a long time) that while in the > tutorial you won't use the mouse even once (since it > was written long, long before the average emacs user > had access to mice, ie before GUIs existed.) > > Once you finish the tutorial, read the emacs manual. Thanks again. Always good advice, even for those who have read it again and again. > I know it's bad form to suggest this, but two very > good textbooks on emacs exist. Google amazon emacs > and see what comes up. > > Good luck! Thank you. Good luck to you too. ;-)