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From: Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawomir.nowaczyk.847@student.lu.se>
Subject: Re: Why does 'M-a' not move to the beginning of the sentence?
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:28:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050907122410.5AC9.SLAWOMIR.NOWACZYK.847@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dfmd8q$okr$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:50:24 +0200
Henrik Andersson <h.andersson@nioo.knaw.nl> wrote:

#> >>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?

If your value of sentence-end-double-space is non-nil, then yes. If
you don't want to end your sentences with two spaces, just customise
this variable: M-x customize-variable RET sentence-end-double-space

-- 
 Best wishes,
   Slawomir Nowaczyk
     ( slawomir.nowaczyk.847@student.lu.se )

The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-07 10:28 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 ` Why does 'M-a' not move to the beginning of the sentence? Ralf Angeli
2005-09-07  9:50   ` Henrik Andersson
2005-09-07 10:28     ` Slawomir Nowaczyk [this message]
     [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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