From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Displaying text Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:33:55 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87pscu6hek.fsf@hans.local.net> References: <6804092.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160840154 11788 80.91.229.2 (14 Oct 2006 15:35:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:35:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 14 17:35:53 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 1GYlXf-0000oR-Fu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:35:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GYlXe-0004Fb-Oj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GYlWY-0003fL-8g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GYlWW-0003de-6F for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:34:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GYlWW-0003dQ-0D for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.183] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GYlfD-0007Iv-3y for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.167.25.208] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML21M-1GYlWS46H0-0002fp; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:34:01 +0200 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E41FE75666; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:33:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: andrew222 In-Reply-To: <6804092.post@talk.nabble.com> (andrew@gonzales.com's message of "Fri\, 13 Oct 2006 14\:22\:47 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 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:38030 Archived-At: andrew222 writes: > I just started to use Emacs even though I hold a degree in Computer Science. Having a degree means that you might be able to read a tutorial ;-)? In earnest, I can only recommend it very much, please take the little time to study the interactive Emacs tutorial (C-h t or have a look at the help menu) it's definitely worth while. > I open a file and Emacs says at the bottom "loading file....done" but I see > no code, no text on the screen. I read about a text display problem in > Help/Emacs Known Problems. Can anyone point me in a direction to > fix this? Loading a file in Emacs parlance means loading the stuff from the file into the lisp interpreter. When you want to edit a file do C-x C-f (find-file). > > Thank you, > > ~Andrew -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany