"John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org> writes: > Would one of you correspond with me privately and answer a lot of dumb > questions on using emacs? Sure I will. You could also try to get an IRC client running, and join us at #emacs on openprojects.net (irc.openprojects.net, or irc.debian.org, port 6667). There are always around 30 people there which will happily try to answer your newbieish emacs questions :-). > 1. There is what looks like a menu bar at the top of the screen, but the > tutorial gives no way to get to it. What's up? Hit F10, or type M-`. In case you dont know M- means hold down the Meta modifier, under console that usually means Alt unless you have tweaked that with loadkeys... > 2. How do I run gcc inside emacs? You can use M-! (shell-command) and execute external program directly. But I guess what you want is more of a compile cycle. This usually involes make too, and Emacs has a nice mode for compilation. Invoke it using M-x compile RET (RET means hit the enter key) > 3. When the compiler says that there is an error on a given line, how do I > tell emacs to go to that line? I dont remember that off-hand, but you could in the meantime check that yourself. Emacs has quite good context sensitive help. If you are in a compile mode buffer, and want to figure out which keys are bound to certain functions in that mode, simply invoke C-h m. The m stands for Mode here. You will get a second window popped up where you usually get a short explanation of that mode, and a listing of special keybindings available there. > By the way, I am using BRLTTY and no speech. I am using BRLTTY too. And I use emacspeak, but more as an nicer way of reading long texts aloud which brltty doesnt do very well atm. > Thanks. > John -- CYa, Mario <mlang@delysid.org> Homepage(s): http://delysid.org | http://piss.at/