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From: Ralf Angeli <dev.null@iwi.uni-sb.de>
Subject: Re: Why does 'M-a' not move to the beginning of the sentence?
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:38:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <431eb51f$0$18641$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6153.1126085200.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

* Henrik Andersson (2005-09-07) writes:

> I edit a lot of LaTeX manuscripts and I started to use emacs key 
> sequences to move easier, avoiding the mouse.
>
> One question, why does M-a and M-e not move to beginning/end of 
> sentences, but paragraphs, when the description clearly says that they 
> are moving around sentences. Are there a different function that will do 
> this?

See `C-h f forward-sentence RET' and `C-h v sentence-end RET'.

-- 
Ralf

       reply	other threads:[~2005-09-07  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.6153.1126085200.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-07  9:38 ` Ralf Angeli [this message]
2005-09-07  9:50   ` Why does 'M-a' not move to the beginning of the sentence? Henrik Andersson
2005-09-07 10:28     ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6156.1126087308.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-09-07 10:36     ` Ralf Angeli
2005-09-07 10:37       ` Ralf Angeli
2005-09-07 11:27         ` Peter Dyballa
2005-09-07 10:52       ` Henrik Andersson
2005-09-07 14:24     ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-09-07  9:08 Henrik Andersson

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