Re: Problem With Emacs Lisp Mode

[Barry Margolin]

In article <1119846018.854668.134710@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "narke" <narkewoody@gmail.com> wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
> > In article <877jgh5nzu.fsf@narke.yellow.line>,
> >  Steven Woody <narkewoody@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > everyone knows that a Ctrl-e will move the cursor to the end of current
> > > statement, but in Emacs Lisp mode, it seems no the true to me. Created a 
> > > .el
> > > file and typed in something like below,
> > >
> > >   (setq a 1)
> > >   (setq b 2)
> > >
> > > then, i put the cursor on the begin of the first sentence, the do a 
> > > Ctrl-e,
> > > the cursor will unexpectedly go to the end of the second sentence!  has 
> > > anyone
> > > encountered this kind of problem?  i like to share your solution.  
> > > thanks!
> >
> > Control-e normally goes to the end of the current *line*.  Are you
> > talking about Meta-e?  Sentences end with a ".", "!", or "?" character
> > followed by whitespace, with an optional close quote or close
> > parenthesis after the punctuation.  Your example doesn't have any of
> > these, so it goes to the end of the paragraph.
> 
> no. i did mean Ctrol-e and what i expected is go to the end of current
> line. in my example, the Ctrol-e always moves cursor to end of the next
> line. but if i split a statement into more than one lines, such as
> (setq a
>       1)
> Ctrol-e will work normally. i do not know why.

Sounds like you have some non-standard key bindings.  What does C-h c 
C-e show?  For me it says end-of-line.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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