From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MBR Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs newbie Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:00:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4E129A66.9040401@arlsoft.com> References: <4E11D33E.80208@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------010704000104020704010109" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309842143 26104 80.91.229.12 (5 Jul 2011 05:02:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 05:02:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: C K Kashyap Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 05 07:02:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qdxm1-0004Vm-B5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:02:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35293 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qdxm0-0004KA-Dp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:02:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50525) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdxkO-0004Jn-CB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdxkM-0002rL-LF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:00:32 -0400 Original-Received: from cario.hostforweb.net ([66.225.230.82]:52990) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdxkM-0002rF-Ao for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:00:30 -0400 Original-Received: from c-24-61-86-182.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.61.86.182]:2012 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by cario.hostforweb.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdxkI-0000u1-UO; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:27 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cario.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - arlsoft.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-Received-From: 66.225.230.82 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:81491 Archived-At: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010704000104020704010109 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit C.K. - Have you noticed when you type 'C-h i' that the *info* buffer it takes you to says at the top: This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics. Typing "d" returns here, "q" exits, "?" lists all INFO commands, "h" gives a primer for first-timers, "mEmacs" visits the Emacs topic, etc. You can try "?" for a quick overview of keys you can type to navigate around the Emacs documentation. But I'd strongly suggest you type "h" and work through the tutorial. It's not very long, and knowing how to navigate through the documentation will make your life a whole lot easier. Mark Rosenthal mbr@arlsoft.com On 7/5/2011 12:27 AM, C K Kashyap wrote: > Thanks Andreas and Ian ... good to see the support ... I feel more > confident now :) > > quick question - once I type 'C-h i', then when I press enter on a > link, it takes me to the topic. How do I get back? I've been doing C-x > C-c and then reopening emacs -q > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------010704000104020704010109 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit C.K. - Have you noticed when you type 'C-h i' that the *info* buffer it takes you to says at the top:
This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics.
Typing "d" returns here, "q" exits, "?" lists all INFO commands, "h"
gives a primer for first-timers, "mEmacs<Return>" visits the Emacs topic,
etc.
You can try "?" for a quick overview of keys you can type to navigate around the Emacs documentation.  But I'd strongly suggest you type "h" and work through the tutorial.  It's not very long, and knowing how to navigate through the documentation will make your life a whole lot easier.
Mark Rosenthal
mbr@arlsoft.com

On 7/5/2011 12:27 AM, C K Kashyap wrote:
Thanks Andreas and Ian ... good to see the support ... I feel more confident now :)

quick question - once I type 'C-h i', then when I press enter on a link, it takes me to the topic. How do I get back? I've been doing C-x C-c and then reopening emacs -q 


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