From: dafshartous@yahoo.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: beginner emacs question regarding M-<
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:48:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189630105.435009.178450@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <853axjhekt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
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!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-12 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-12 14:58 beginner emacs question regarding M-< dafshartous
2007-09-12 16:38 ` weber
2007-09-12 19:24 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-12 20:48 ` dafshartous [this message]
2007-09-14 7:22 ` imputerate
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