I am connecting from a Windows machine to a Linux server via Putty (http://blog.harang.org/?tag=putty). There I start Emacs and open a script written in the statistical language R. When I open the file, the appropriate major mode ESS is loaded and shown to be active in the tool bar. Also when I type C-h m
I get the information of the major mode and also all its keybinding. The variable major-mode
has the value ess-mode
.
So far, so good. The problem is: None of the keybindings associated with this major mode do work. I type one of them, nothing happens except that I get the message that this keybinding is undefined. In describe-bindings
, the keybindings of the major mode are not shown. (This is also the information I get when I type C-h k
with the key sequence.)
What can I do? What is going on? Is it because of the putty emulation I am using?
major-mode
? What doesM-x
describe-bindings
say? – PythonNut Feb 10 '15 at 19:41describe-bindings
, the keybindings of the major mode are not shown. – Michael Feb 11 '15 at 9:53C-h k
report the key that you thought you had pressed? Could you post a screenshot after pressingC-h k
and one of the major mode key bindings? Are you sure that the right window is focused? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Feb 11 '15 at 18:39emacs -Q
. – Drew Jan 14 '19 at 3:40