Re: Emacs beginner, Meta-a and Meta-e not working in all files.

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2014-11-30, at 20:58, scottfrancis87@gmail.com wrote:

> Very new Emacs user here. I have just been going through the tutorial trying 
> to get familiar with the important key combos and one in particular is 
> causing me an issue. It seems that the Meta-a and Meta-e does not want to 
> always work. In the tutorial I works like intended, going to the beginning 
> and end of sentence respectively. But when I made a new file and typed out a 
> couple paragraphs to practice moving around in my own file, using those 
> combos will just move me from the beginning and end of the paragraph. I am on 
> windows using emacs in the command prompt and with two buffers up in the 
> window it works fine in the tutorial but not my file. Anyone know what's 
> going on here, I would appreciate the help! 

Welcome to Emacs-land!

Did you type two spaces after the period ending the sentence?  If you
don't want to do this, try

M-x customize-option RET sentence-end-double-space RET

or put (setq sentence-end-double-space nil) in your init file.

> Scott

Hth,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University