Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!yynet.tama.tokyo.jp!Q.T.Honey!komachi.sp.cs.cmu.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: MengX_800@163.com (manindream) Newsgroups: alt.h.i.p.c.r.i.m.e.emacs.advocacy,alt.h0pcr0me.emacs.advocacy,alt.hipcrime.emacs.advocacy,comp.emacs,fj.editor.emacs,fj.editor.xemacs,gnu.emacs Subject: Re: I can't use emacs's help system! Pls help me. Date: 1 Dec 2003 03:56:13 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3a272b01.0312010356.4bb723ac@posting.google.com> References: <8665hcoef8.wl%fukuda@computer.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.72.84.152 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1070279774 24552 127.0.0.1 (1 Dec 2003 11:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.editor.emacs:166 fj.editor.xemacs:15 But if i can not find the .emacs file in my home directory on the server, what can i do?? thanks ! Taka Fukuda wrote in message news:<8665hcoef8.wl%fukuda@computer.org>... > Hi Jason > > At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:29:55 +0800, > Jason wrote: > > > > I start my emacs(ver:21.3) now, but the help system is disabled! When I hit > > C-h, it just delete a character like "backspace". I installed emacs at > > /home/myname/emacs-21.3-installed, and manual pages were stored at > > /home/myname/emacs-21.3-installed/man.How can I enable emacs's help system? > > Thanks a lot! > > I guess that your help system is not disabled, but maybe > you have changed the key binding of help-for-help > command. You can invoke help by typing > > M-x help-for-help > > If you like to do that by hitting C-h, find the lines like > > (global-unset-key "\^h") > (global-set-key "\^h" 'delete-backward-char) > > in your .emacs, and delete them both. > > Best regards,