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Re: Help: M-a = backward paragraph


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: Help: M-a = backward paragraph
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 17:59:17 GMT

In article <1103_1057079346@news.snet.sbcglobal.net>,
Benjamin Lanin  <blanin@snet.net> wrote:
>When I type either M-a or "M-x backward-sentence" the cursor moves to the
>beginning of the paragraph, not the 
>beginning of the sentence. Note that this only happens in my own text
>buffers; these commands work as expected in 
>the tutorial. Same thing with M-e.

My guess is you're not putting two spaces between your sentences (I only
see one space between "beginning of the sentence." and "Note that".

See the variables sentence-end and sentence-end-double-space.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
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