End and beginning of buffer

End and beginning of buffer

[javaxman69]

Hi all.
I don't know if it is me (probably), but I can't have the key binding M-> and M-< working on my pc (OS is Ubuntu 14.04, and Emacs version is 24.3.1).
Expected behaviour is reaching the end and the beginning of a buffer, but instead I get the following messages, respectively:
- Find tag:
- No M-x tags-search or M-x tags-query-replace in progress
Any idea why?
Thanks.
(P.S. All (at least the ones I tried) other combination with Meta key are working flawlessly)

Re: End and beginning of buffer

[Emanuel Berg]

javaxman69@gmail.com writes:

> Hi all. I don't know if it is me (probably), but
> I can't have the key binding M-> and M-< working on my
> pc (OS is Ubuntu 14.04, and Emacs version is 24.3.1).
> Expected behaviour is reaching the end and the
> beginning of a buffer, but instead I get the following
> messages, respectively: - Find tag: - No M-x
> tags-search or M-x tags-query-replace in progress Any
> idea why? Thanks. (P.S. All (at least the ones
> I tried) other combination with Meta key are working
> flawlessly)

I can only offer general advice because no, I don't
have any ideas:

1. Start Emacs with 'emacs -Q'. Does it work?

2. Don't start Emacs with -Q. Instead start it
   regularly and hit `C-h k' and then hit M-< and M->
   to see what the keys are bound to. Is it
   `beginning-of-buffer' and `end-of-buffer'? And, do
   `C-h f beginning-of-buffer RET' and `C-h
   f end-of-buffer RET' and see if M-< and M-> show
   up. If anything isn't as expected, what mode and/or
   buffer are you in? Did you configure that
   particular situation? Or did you load
   anything unorthodox?

By the way, I since long abandoned M-< and M-> for
`C-o i' and `C-o j'. Better located and more intuitive
for us Lode Runners (`i' is above `j', compared to `<'
and `>' which only make sense with respect to the
chars, and not what position they have on the keyboard
- it is the same position, actually).

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

RE: End and beginning of buffer

[Drew Adams]

> I don't know if it is me (probably), but I can't have the key binding M->
> and M-< working on my pc (OS is Ubuntu 14.04, and Emacs version is 24.3.1).
> Expected behaviour is reaching the end and the beginning of a buffer, but
> instead I get the following messages, respectively:
> - Find tag:
> - No M-x tags-search or M-x tags-query-replace in progress
> Any idea why?
> Thanks.
> (P.S. All (at least the ones I tried) other combination with Meta key are
> working flawlessly)


`M-.' is what Emacs is seeing instead of `M->'.
`M-,' is what Emacs is seeing instead of `M-<'.

IOW, the Shift key is not working correctly for you (assuming that `>' is shifted `.' and `<' is shifted `,').

Does the shift key not work correctly in some other cases?

What does Emacs tell you when you do `C-h k' and then try to use `M->' or `M-<'?

You probably need to provide more info about your environment, for people to help.

Be aware that you can use `ESC >' and `ESC <' instead of `M->' and `M-<'.  But of course, you need at least to be able to have the `>' and `<' keys working.

Re: End and beginning of buffer

[Robert Thorpe]

javaxman69@gmail.com writes:

> Hi all.
> I don't know if it is me (probably), but I can't have the key binding M-> and M-< working on my pc (OS is Ubuntu 14.04, and Emacs version is 24.3.1).
> Expected behaviour is reaching the end and the beginning of a buffer, but instead I get the following messages, respectively:
> - Find tag:
> - No M-x tags-search or M-x tags-query-replace in progress
> Any idea why?

It could be the inconsistencies of laptop keyboards.  In general, the
character that's printed at the bottom on each key is the one that's
provided when you press the key normally.  The character printed on the
top of each key is the one given when you press shift and that key.  M->
is end-of-buffer, M-< is beginning-of-buffer.  Usually, "<" and ">" are
shifted keys.  Usually the corresponding keys unshifted give "," and
".", those give tags-loop-continue and tag-search.  It could be that
your keyboard has "<" and ">" as the unshifted keys.

BR,
Robert Thorpe

Re: End and beginning of buffer

[moreno.cavallaro]

On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 11:37:44 PM UTC+2, javax...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all.
> I don't know if it is me (probably), but I can't have the key binding M-> and M-< working on my pc (OS is Ubuntu 14.04, and Emacs version is 24.3.1).
> Expected behaviour is reaching the end and the beginning of a buffer, but instead I get the following messages, respectively:
> - Find tag:
> - No M-x tags-search or M-x tags-query-replace in progress
> Any idea why?
> Thanks.
> (P.S. All (at least the ones I tried) other combination with Meta key are working flawlessly)

Thank you all for the replies.
I forgot to mention that my emacs was not a plain vanilla. I had installed, following a tutorial, git clone https://github.com/flyingmachine/emacs-for-clojure.git ~/.emacs.d, but I highly doubt that was causing the problem.
This said I did a reinstallation and magically everything is working now....I am pretty sure that I guiltily messed up something in my previous installation.
Thanks again.
Cheers.