From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "cycjec" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't get "help" Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:07:36 GMT Organization: /// === === Message-ID: References: <87hck0soh9.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194288048 30749 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2007 18:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:40:48 +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 Nov 05 19:40:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ip6sM-0007TU-Bw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:40:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ip6sB-0008Fd-6Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.asbnva01.us.to.verio.net!129.250.35.102.MISMATCH!newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.2-STABLE (i386)) Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.139.147.7 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net Original-X-Trace: newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net 1194286056 216.139.147.7 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:07:36 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:07:36 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153558 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:49041 Archived-At: Joel J. Adamson wrote: > Try f1 for help instead of C-h, your terminal may be sending C-h as > delete. F1 C-f gets you the FAQ On-line Help, Printed Manuals, Other Sources of Help That's exactly what it's doing. From the FAQ: 13: I'm just starting Emacs; how do I do basic editing? Type "C-h t" to invoke the self-paced tutorial. Just typing `C-h' enters the help system. WARNING: Your system administrator may have changed `C-h' to act like DEL to deal with local keyboards. You can use M-x help-for-help instead to invoke help. To discover what key (if any) invokes help on your system, type "M-x where-is RET help-for-help RET". This will print a comma-separated list of key sequences in the echo area. Ignore the last character in each key sequence listed. Each of the resulting key sequences invokes help. NOTE: Emacs help works best if it is invoked by a single key whose value should be stored in the variable help-char.