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Re: Emacs beginner, Meta-a and Meta-e not working in all files.
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: Emacs beginner, Meta-a and Meta-e not working in all files. |
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30 Nov 2014 20:05:16 GMT |
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scottfrancis87@gmail.com wrote:
> Very new Emacs user here. I have just been going through the tutorial
> trying to get familiar with the important key combos and one in
> particular is causing me an issue. It seems that the Meta-a and Meta-e
> does not want to always work. In the tutorial I works like intended,
> going to the beginning and end of sentence respectively. But when I
> made a new file and typed out a couple paragraphs to practice moving
> around in my own file, using those combos will just move me from the
> beginning and end of the paragraph. I am on windows using emacs in the
> command prompt and with two buffers up in the window it works fine in
> the tutorial but not my file. Anyone know what's going on here, I
> would appreciate the help!
Read the section on sentences in the Emacs manual:
C-h i m Emacs RET m Sentences RET
That should tell you what you want to know.
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