From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4119 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Josh" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document. Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:08:21 -0400 Message-ID: <87oek05vre.fsf@huber.callisto.paradoxical.net> References: <3d6111f1.0409161437.30ef8b7d@posting.google.com> <2r90j7F17iuf3U1@uni-berlin.de> <2r96g3F182tnvU1@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670108 21924 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:15:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:15:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:16 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!peernews.cix.co.uk!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:11:01 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.editors,comp.emacs.xemacs,gnu.emacs.gnus Mail-Copies-To: nobody Cancel-Lock: sha1:AraFNfjuAwb+jmVj/EXlgJkHBcM= Original-X-Trace: sv3-Kgq7+py5cBwG0/Rnnz1PgPJruJoS28bRdprNxc9upuHNLq+Xfma72mRIpFI+7vdE+pOwD0zMPVo6gEU!WzZRpLFul9x2RJUSiLaGrQf+n2rafrda0Z7DxTR6w5BW7olXCUMSGtoMWTxDD1egWzs10nMcMVw= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.13 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4260 Original-Lines: 37 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4260 Tue Jan 17 17:33:16 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4119 Archived-At: Mike Cox writes: > I was pressing random keys trying to figure out how to save my > document. I was looking through the emacs help menu on how to > do it (enduring a lot of computer beeping). That's when it > crashed. Emacs is a nightmare to navigate. Where is the "Save > As" button on this thing??? You wouldn't happen to have noticed the "Save As" option in the "File" menu, perhaps? > The reason I didn't even save in the first place was because > emacs never asked me to create a new document when I started it > up. It just dumped me in some "buffer". In VIM you have to > specify a file when you open a document. Makes sense, and it > works unlike emacs. You would have, of course, missed this text in the scratch buffer on startup as well? ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp ;; evaluation. If you want to create a file, first visit that ;; file with C-x C-f, then enter the text in that file's own ;; buffer. In particular, the first sentence is quite telling... >> One presses C-g. That's it. You then use ^ in the Group >> buffer to go to the server buffer and close the connection to >> the server with C. You leave the server buffer with q, and >> then you just continue working once the connection is up >> again. > > Try it. Didn't work for me. This works fine for me. Of course, I don't have a modem to test with, so I'll have to settle for bringing the interface down.