From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Andersson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why does 'M-a' not move to the beginning of the sentence? Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:50:24 +0200 Message-ID: References: <431eb51f$0$18641$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126088094 29895 80.91.229.2 (7 Sep 2005 10:14:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 07 12:14:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECwvZ-0002rn-Dj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:13:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECx06-00053w-2b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ECwkR-0000IG-Qz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ECwkN-0000GV-8i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECwkL-0000E4-TV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1ECwiY-0004Gw-EY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 05:59:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ECwcm-0007sU-V8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:53:48 +0200 Original-Received: from pc78.cemo.nioo.knaw.nl ([194.171.40.78]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:53:48 +0200 Original-Received: from h.andersson by pc78.cemo.nioo.knaw.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:53:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc78.cemo.nioo.knaw.nl User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <431eb51f$0$18641$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> 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:29281 Archived-At: Ralf Angeli wrote: > * 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'. > Ok, I read but do not fully understand, does it mean I need two spaces separating sentences? --------------------------------------------- Henrik Andersson Netherlands Institute of Ecology - Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology P.O. Box 140 4400 AC Yerseke Phone: +31 113 577473 h.andersson@nioo.knaw.nl http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/ppages/handersson