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Re: Emacs beginner, Meta-a and Meta-e not working in all files.
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: Emacs beginner, Meta-a and Meta-e not working in all files. |
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Sun, 30 Nov 2014 21:15:18 +0100 |
On 2014-11-30, at 20:58, 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!
Welcome to Emacs-land!
Did you type two spaces after the period ending the sentence? If you
don't want to do this, try
M-x customize-option RET sentence-end-double-space RET
or put (setq sentence-end-double-space nil) in your init file.
> Scott
Hth,
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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University