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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Electric Buffer mode too boring
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:55:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4811FEED.8030509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iciqy6newu.fsf@mk.telcordia.com>

Dan Espen wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Dan Espen wrote:
>>> In XEmacs, I hit ^h^v to see a variables value.
>>> Just figured out I need M-x describe-variable.
>>> (A difference I can adapt to.)
>> It seems like you have "adapted to" it ;-)
>>
>> The default in GNU Emacs is that C-h C-v is bound to describe-variable.
> 
> Really, then what the hell am I running?
> 
> emacs -q
> 
> ^h k ^h ^v
> 
> gives me C-h C-v is undefined.
> 
> GNU Emacs 21.4.1.
> 
> Sorry, but you know how beginners are.  :)

Sometimes it does not help to know how things are ;-)

It is C-h v that is bound to describe-variable as Sven pointed out.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-25 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-24 19:49 Electric Buffer mode too boring Dan Espen
2008-04-24 22:35 ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.10791.1209076628.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-24 23:12   ` Dan Espen
2008-04-24 23:58     ` Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <mailman.10793.1209081505.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-25  1:22       ` Dan Espen
2008-04-25  1:25       ` Dan Espen
2008-04-25  3:59         ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]         ` <mailman.10796.1209096000.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-25 12:15           ` Dan Espen
2008-04-25 14:55             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]             ` <mailman.10809.1209135366.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-25 15:16               ` Dan Espen
2008-04-25 15:55                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-04-25 15:20               ` Sven Joachim
2008-04-25 15:38                 ` Dan Espen
2008-04-25 15:53                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)

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