From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Commands not working Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:32:30 +0100 Organization: sometimes Message-ID: <7ebqxvnub5.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> References: <1138372679.888754.11040@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1138376647.202909.184630@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1138430706.582640.201990@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138538985 8817 80.91.229.2 (29 Jan 2006 12:49:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:49:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 29 13:49:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3Bzu-0003cv-RP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:49:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3C2m-0006eH-50 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:52:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!LF.net!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ada2.unipv.it Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1138534350 32228 193.204.44.145 (29 Jan 2006 11:32:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:32:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QKFii+p/r9fdM+aYk1RyrnVIpl8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137277 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:32898 Archived-At: "mudgen@gmail.com" writes: > Then I was in X. Then I tried emacs in X and it worked perfectly. Then > I went to a terminal and tried it from a terminal outside X and it was > now working perfectly. I got out of X and tried a terminal and it > worked perfectly. I rebooted my computer. And with a reboot and only > being in a terminal and not having X running anywhere, emacs ran > perfectly. you can avoid rebooting altogether by either using "emacs -nw", or by unsetting the DISPLAY env var in the terminal where you want to run emacs. really, rebooting is not the height of debugging style. better to inform yourself of some core concepts and rework your mental model. thi