From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is the display always messed up whenever I use the manual or eww? Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:17:31 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87vbe7nd2c.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <01fc4ed3-b31f-449e-96dd-f6a31446565f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435566026 32310 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2015 08:20:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 08:20:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 29 10:20:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9UId-0005ly-PM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:20:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41034 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9UIc-0000Wl-Qq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 04:20:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Trace: individual.net qNn9PA5iN3ur0UBZooqV8wVgYhpvFEcOipwB+Wm9pQfjKiEoaY Cancel-Lock: sha1:YjA5ODE2NzVkZTQwZWFjOGVjYTNkYTg3NDE3YWFkMWYxNzE2YTZmNw== sha1:QKTbaHHyBqU6tGDWtuEQ7u0LYF0= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212991 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:105277 Archived-At: Jonathan Yip writes: > So I have been trying to learn more about emacs by reading the manual > but the display keeps being messed up after going down a few pages. > I use emacs in command line on OS X Yosemite. Is it better if I use the app version? I would advise you to use the GUI version of emacs: http://www.emacsformacosx.com this is a very good distribution of GNU emacs for MacOSX. (Currently, version 24.4.1) Otherwise, in the Terminal.app, I don't observe any difficulty in navigating in the info; type in Terminal.app: emacs RET C-h i m emacs RET SPC SPC SPC When called from the terminal, you will get the emacs provided by apple, in /usr/bin/emacs, which is version 22.1.1, a tad old. What terminal are you using? Does it have correct and complete termcap (or terminfo) entries? Did you configure the TERM variable correctly? Did you install your own emacs? What version? Are you sure this is the emacs you installed you are invoking? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk