From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ronald Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Can not get key-help for M-g Date: 03 Sep 2002 13:17:55 +0200 Organization: Customer of SpaceNet GmbH Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: rovf@feriasonline.pt NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031052268 19897 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 11:24:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mBnH-0005Ao-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:24:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mBoq-0000JB-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 07:26:04 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.space.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-810.i-dial.de Original-X-Trace: news.space.net 1031051878 71234 193.149.52.3 (3 Sep 2002 11:17:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.space.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:17:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Home-Page: http://www.fusshuhn.de/ X-Attribution: Ronny User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.3 Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104418 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:984 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:984 This is strange: Normally, when I want to get help for a certain key, I type C-h k and then the key I'm interested in. This does not work, however, when I ask help for the key M-g. When I type C-h k M-g, I get instead the following prompt in the minibuffer: Set face: default italic bold .... (etc.) What is the magic behind M-g? I know that C-g is special, but M-g should just be a "normal" key? I'm using Emacs 20.3.1 Ronald -- To reduce spam in my inbox, the address given in the Reply-To: header is not guaranteed to live longer than 1 month after the article was posted. My permanent address is (after deleting the XXX): Ronald Otto Valentin Fischer