[Novalug] emacs trouble
John Holland
jholland@vin-dit.org
Sat Aug 15 18:55:58 EDT 2015
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> *****
> [ I am running LXDE, But the web-link you sent suggested using
> gsettings, and gsettings has to do with gnome code. Maybe gnome
> code is used in lxde? ]
Looked at it again, a lot of different environments and stuff referenced in it. Maybe it’s wrong for you.
> No Esc-: here, this is emacs! You can’t run lisp from Esc-X I don’t think.
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>
> *****
> [It's not esc-X, it's esc-colon. In emacs, typing esc and then : puts
> you in the "scratch buffer”
Never knew that! Just tried it, it seems to be a “evaluation buffer” - but didn’t know about that.
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> [But of course, I would only do such as an experiment. If It works, I would need it
> my .emacs file. We can't be typing set-up stuff all the time.]
>
> [Thanks again, John, But that idea is very scary to me, I don't want to damage the system i have.
> I'm pretty sure now, this problem is connected to this ibus software.]
>
I think the thing is to find out how in LXDE to change key mappings, but I don’t know LXDE.
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