Re: beginner emacs question regarding M-<

[David Kastrup]

dafshartous@yahoo.com writes:

> All,
> I was using  M-<  to go to the beginning of a file, but now it
> apparently doesn't work.  A pop-up came up and had information about
> mouse and keyboard configuration.  Now when I try to invoke  M-<  I
> get:
>
> No M-x tags-search or M-x tags-query-replace in progress
>
> Did I inadvertently change how it works?  If so, how to get it back?

If you have some key printed with "<" above ",", you need to press and
hold down the so-called "shift key" (possibly labelled with an
upward-pointing hollow arrow rather than "shift") while pressing such
a key in order to get the upper symbol printed on the key.

So if you hold down shift and press ",", you get "<".  The same holds
when also pressing Alt.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum