From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Moving to beginning and end of a list Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <887f5295-4a75-408e-ad2f-ccd30f9c5694@f10g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256226140 8087 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2009 15:42:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:42:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 22 17:42:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N0zmP-0005wu-7K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:40:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35394 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N0zmO-0008Fl-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:40:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f10g2000vbl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.227.15.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1256223073 11959 127.0.0.1 (22 Oct 2009 14:51:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f10g2000vbl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.227.15.253; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 ip1-w.foi.se:8080 (IronPort-WSA/6.3.0-523) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.223.6 Safari/532.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174076 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69159 Archived-At: I have found these two functions very useful especially when do lisp hacking and designing clever macros: (defun move-beginning-of-list () "Move to beginning of list, before first element." (interactive) (while (ignore-errors (backward-sexp) t))) (global-set-key [(meta shift ?a)] 'move-beginning-of-list) (defun move-end-of-list () "Move to end of list, after first element." (interactive) (while (ignore-errors (forward-sexp) t))) (global-set-key [(meta shift ?e)] 'move-end-of-list) Does Emacs contain something similar by default. /Nordl=F6w