beginner emacs question regarding M-<

beginner emacs question regarding M-<

[dafshartous]

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?

Thanks!
David

Re: beginner emacs question regarding M-<

[weber]

On Sep 12, 11:58 am, dafshart...@yahoo.com wrote:
> 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?
>
> Thanks!
> David

Maybe. You can check typing:
C-h k
and then the key sequence you want to "investigate".

It should be returning something like this:

M-< runs the command beginning-of-buffer ...

Check to see if you messed it up.
Cheers,
weber

Re: beginner emacs question regarding M-<

[David Kastrup]

dafshartous@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

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!

Re: beginner emacs question regarding M-<

[imputerate]

> 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.

one way to avoid running out of fingers when holding/pressing...etc.
is to set the caps lock so that it applies to all keys, including numbers
and keys like ,/<; 

actually it's a good way to render upper case letters, too,
once you get used to it; 
imputerate

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