I can't use emacs's help system! Pls help me.

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Jason

2003-11-20 09:29:55 UTC

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!

Taka Fukuda

2003-11-22 11:01:15 UTC

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Hi Jason

At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:29:55 +0800,

Post by Jason
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,

--
-- Taka Fukuda
-- fukuda at computer.org

Jason

2003-11-24 03:18:45 UTC

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Thanks for your help! Taka Fukuda.
I'v resolved this problem under some friends' help.
I use a script file with some words such as "stty erase ^V;emacs;" to start
my emacs intead of "emacs". :) It's wonderful and emacs works well.

Thank you again! Taka Fukuda.

Jason

Post by Taka Fukuda
Hi Jason
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:29:55 +0800,

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,
--
-- Taka Fukuda
-- fukuda at computer.org

IIJIMA Hiromitsu

2003-11-25 04:33:56 UTC

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Post by Taka Fukuda
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.

GNU Emacs 21, right. Then
(if (fboundp 'normal-erase-is-backspace-mode)
(normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 0)
)
will help.

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aka Delmonta http://www.ht.sakura.ne.jp/~delmonta/

Bijan Minaee

2007-03-15 15:03:29 UTC

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Hi
This was just the right tip. It worked like a charm. Many thanks /Hiromitsu
Bijan

Post by IIJIMA Hiromitsu

GNU Emacs 21, right. Then
(if (fboundp 'normal-erase-is-backspace-mode)
(normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 0)
)
will help.
========================================================================
aka Delmonta http://www.ht.sakura.ne.jp/~delmonta/

manindream

2003-12-01 11:56:13 UTC

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But if i can not find the .emacs file in my home directory on the
server, what can i do??

thanks !

Post by Taka Fukuda
Hi Jason
At Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:29:55 +0800,

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,