4.1 Sentence Commands
A sentence is defined as a sequence of characters ending with a period,
question mark or exclamation point, followed by either two spaces or a newline.
A sentence may also be terminated by the end of a paragraph. Any number of
closing delimiters, such as brackets or quotes, may be between the punctuation
and the whitespace. This somewhat complex definition of a sentence is used so
that periods in abbreviations are not misinterpreted as sentence ends. [annotate]
| Forward Sentence | (bound to M-a) | [Command] |
| Backward Sentence | (bound to M-e) | [Command] |
| | Forward Sentence moves the point forward
past the next sentence end. Backward Sentence moves to the beginning
of the current sentence. A prefix argument may be used as a repeat count.
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| Forward Kill Sentence | (bound to M-k) | [Command] |
| Backward Kill Sentence | (bound to C-x Delete, C-x Backspace) | [Command] |
| | Forward Kill Sentence kills text from the
point through to the end of the current sentence. Backward Kill Sentence
kills from the point to the beginning of the current sentence. A
prefix argument may be used as a repeat count.
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This command puts the point at the beginning and the mark at the end of the
next or current sentence.
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