From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: some other questions from a VIM user Date: 23 Apr 2003 14:51:22 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051111111 32137 80.91.224.249 (23 Apr 2003 15:18:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 23 17:18:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 198M0I-0008I5-00 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:17:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 198LyU-0004VR-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:15:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!swen.emba.uvm.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!an02.austin.ibm.com!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!kgold Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1051109482 20092 9.2.16.245 (23 Apr 2003 14:51:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Apr 2003 14:51:22 GMT X-Newsreader: xrn 9.01 Originator: kgold@watson.ibm.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112219 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8718 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8718 wang yin writes: > 1. How can I move to the beginning of the first non-blank character > fast in Emacs? M-x forward-whitespace Bonus: M-x apropos forward gives you a list of all the "forward" functions. > 2. Why does my Meta key stopped functionning in this session? M-x > can't work now! I don't know what's special I have done. I just > tried to bind the open-line-a-la-vi function to C-j just now. Now > M-e, M-a, M-x, M-backspace, C-M-f, ... they don't work now. I know > the problem will be solved in my next run. But I want to know when > this should happen? What happens when you type C-h k M-e? What is M-e bound to? -- -- Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646