Re: dissociated-press help: M-x not recognized

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 12.07.2006 um 00:38 schrieb Tsu Dho Nimh:

>> Why do you write of "shell commands?"
>
> Because that's what the GUI calls them.

A shell command is a programme that runs in its own little shell  
outside of GNU Emacs. Emacs then opens a buffer, *Shell Command  
Output*, that contains the output from the "shell command." In MS  
Windows command.com or such would be launched to run inside xcopy or  
ipconfig or whatever there exists as "shell commands."

Dissociated-press is kind of a "built-in" programme in GNU Emacs.  
It's written in Lisp and needs Emacs as interpreter. To start these  
built-in programmes you invoke them with M-x, which means that you  
either press the "Meta" key and the x key at the same time or you  
press Esc and then x. Then the mini-buffer shows a prompt and you can  
give it a built-in programme's name ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

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