From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Electric Buffer mode too boring Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:55:25 +0200 Message-ID: <4811FEED.8030509@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209138960 16743 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2008 15:56:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:56:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 25 17:56:35 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1JpQHn-000849-U0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:56:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JpQH7-0004KW-Ve for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JpQGo-0004HU-O9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:55:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JpQGm-0004DC-0m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:55:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35127 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JpQGl-0004Cq-NX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:55:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JpQGl-0002Hu-Ce for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:55:27 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-150-27.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.150.27]:63231 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JpQGj-0002Mk-5G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:55:25 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080425-0, 2008-04-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.150.27 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JpQGj-0002Mk-5G. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JpQGj-0002Mk-5G 7ee5d3592acbbe3de4c32e6a38f8b95e X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:53542 Archived-At: Dan Espen wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" 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.