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Re: Newbie help


From: Jason Earl
Subject: Re: Newbie help
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:00:03 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Tue, Feb 15 2011, Nelson Teixeira wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I started recently to use Emacs and am learning the basic commands. So
> I haven't customized it in any way. Just installed it. 
> But when I use de C-x Del command to kill to the beggining of the
> sentence, it open directory listing instead. 
> The command I want to use is backward-kill-sentence, and in help (C-h
> f) says it's bounded to C-x DEL. Anyone knows why it's calling this
> other function ?
> How do I make myself sure that the key bindings are the default ones ?
>
> Nelson Teixeira

This might sound goofy, but have you tried typing "C-x <Backspace>"?

"C-x D" does want to give a directory listing on my machine, but "C-x
<Backspace>" does the right thing.

Jason


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