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 12:52:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <431eb51f$0$18641$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <431ec294$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 1126094550 19719 80.91.229.2 (7 Sep 2005 12:02:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:02:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 07 14:02:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECycf-0006hk-Gh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:01:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECygD-0006Fz-1K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ECxq5-00022K-Nf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:11:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ECxpx-0001yC-Pr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECxpu-0001iv-Im for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:11:26 -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 1ECxg6-0000UJ-9F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:01:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ECxaT-0002Ed-Ng for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:55:29 +0200 Original-Received: from pc84.cemo.nioo.knaw.nl ([194.171.40.84]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:55:29 +0200 Original-Received: from h.andersson by pc84.cemo.nioo.knaw.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:55:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc84.cemo.nioo.knaw.nl User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <431ec294$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:29287 Archived-At: Ralf Angeli wrote: > * Henrik Andersson (2005-09-07) writes: > > >>Ralf Angeli wrote: >> >>>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? > > > If you don't want to change `sentence-end', yes. In contrast to Emacs > 21, this should not be necessary if you set > `sentence-end-double-space' to your preferred value. > > More on the topic can be found in (info "(emacs)Sentences"). > I see, thanks. The descriptions of variables and functions are sometimes a bit cryptic to understand, but this of course understandable with so many functions to document. Nice to have this mailing list to get answers from real people. Have a nice day, Henrik -- --------------------------------------------- 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