From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie programmer beginning to use Emacs, Help! Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:21:58 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: Reply-To: noreply@accessdenied.xxx NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197873685 12246 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2007 06:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:41:25 +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 Dec 17 07:41:37 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 1J49fU-0007SC-Cl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:41:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J49fA-0004E3-Mq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:41:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:c7i7FJk/pnRug/LPNH/Hbq7WVtc= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 24 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154708 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:50134 Archived-At: Sean Ochoa writes: > Hey all. I'm sure you get this a lot for those adventurous enough to > venture out from windows (notepad-esc) text editors... but I'm totally > confused by the help files about how to use Emacs. Here are a few of > my questions, for starters: > > 1. What is the "Meta" key (I couldn't find a definition that makes > sense in documentation anywhere)? I'm using a HP Pavillion dv9428nr > laptop running win xp pro and Emacs v22.1.1 `c-' = , `M-' = . Do the tutorial to get used to the keystrokes for basic editing. You can also use the scroll bar and the Edit tab on the menu bar. > 2. How to enter a command like ftp mysite.net user:admin@mysite.net > password:admin_password, so that I can work on files from my web > server (as a side note, does emacs support ftp 'save-as' to server?)? I don't know; I use an FTP client such as Filezilla and edit on my machine then upload. > 3. What exactly is 'Dired Mode'? > > A note for any answers: I've already read through what I could find > the the user manual, and I'm still stuck. If you don't understand something in the manual at first skip it and read something else; there is a lot there. You may need some reference books on Lisp as well if you are not familiar with Lisp at all. Fortunately I have some old textbooks from the early eighties that are still relevent to elisp. > > Thanks for any additional assistance! > > - Sean