Re: beginner emacs question regarding M-<

[dafshartous]

On Sep 12, 3:24 pm, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> dafshart...@yahoo.com writes:
> > All,
> > I was using  M-<  to go to the beginning of a file, but now it
> > apparently doesn't work.  A pop-up came up and had information about
> > mouse and keyboard configuration.  Now when I try to invoke  M-<  I
> > get:
>
> > No M-x tags-search or M-x tags-query-replace in progress
>
> > Did I inadvertently change how it works?  If so, how to get it back?
>
> If you have some key printed with "<" above ",", you need to press and
> hold down the so-called "shift key" (possibly labelled with an
> upward-pointing hollow arrow rather than "shift") while pressing such
> a key in order to get the upper symbol printed on the key.
>
> So if you hold down shift and press ",", you get "<".  The same holds
> when also pressing Alt.
>
> --
> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

ah yes, that's it.  I just started re-learning emacs and forgot that
additional keystroke.  Thanks!