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Old 10-23-2004, 02:57 AM   #1
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how to use emacs


How do I access the menu?

How do I quit Emacs

Ok I'm a complete Newbie (yes with capital)
 
Old 10-23-2004, 03:00 AM   #2
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Start emacs. Click on Help. There are many help files, including a tutorial.
 
Old 10-23-2004, 03:06 AM   #3
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i tried that

but, ...

I don't find a thing access help menu or how to quit even a tutorial on the internet, ...

if I press C-h t it says no such file <a path I suppose the Emacs path>/tutorial
 
Old 10-23-2004, 04:10 AM   #4
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Are you in the command line? If so then there won't be a menu to click on. You use key commands to perform actions. To quit you use ctrl-x and then ctrl-c. To save you use ctrl-x ctrl-s.

There is a tutorial which you can access from inside emacs by doing ctrl-h t. This means hold control and press h, then soon press t.

Hope that helps some.

Alex

P.S. There are paper books if you need them.
 
Old 10-23-2004, 04:45 AM   #5
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I tried the ctrl h and then t but it says that the tutorial file could not be found
 
Old 10-23-2004, 05:02 AM   #6
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hmmm, sounds like your emacs installation is a little messed up. You might want to try reinstalling or just look on google.co.uk/linux for emacs tutorial.

Alex
 
Old 10-23-2004, 05:04 AM   #7
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weird, yesterday I installed linux and I didn't make any changes
 
Old 10-23-2004, 05:30 AM   #8
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Yes I agree it is very weird. Maybe mandrake doesn't install the tutorial or maybe its a bug in the distro. Can't really tell you I'm afraid. I thought it was a very standard thing since all the years I've been using Linux, and all the distros (even under Mac OS X) there is always the tutorial.

Sorry couldn't be more help

Alex
 
Old 10-23-2004, 05:47 AM   #9
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Well maybe it could be that,
during install I tried to select all the packages available manually and I noticed that when I selected every single package that some packages got unselected by some reason, I don't know why is it the dependencies (or what is it in linux) or do certain packages just hate others
 
Old 11-15-2004, 02:51 PM   #10
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Question emacs commands

I am having trouble getting files to show up in Emacs.

I was able to use it as a command line when I needed to repair a file that stopped X-window from working. In that case I changed to the desired directory via cd command in the command line and then Started Emacs and via Ctrl-x Ctrl-f located the file and put it in buffer and saw the first page on the emacs window.


When I started Emacs from within X-window(KDE) it starts at my home directory /home/gary/. I can bring up a file that is in that directory and see it on the Emacs window. When I try to bring up another file not in that directory it is seen as a new file. If I try to change the directory via the Esc-x command , for example a directory path like /etc/X11/, I get a response saying 'No Match".

I have tried hard to look in the online help and tutorials, but they all seem topresume this part is laready working and I could not find help. I am sure it is there somewhere. Hopefully this question will make sense to someone.

BTW - I am using Mandrake 10.1

thanks

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