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12.3 forward-sentence

The command to move the cursor forward a sentence is a straightforward illustration of how to use regular expression searches in Emacs Lisp. Indeed, the function looks longer and more complicated than it is; this is because the function is designed to go backwards as well as forwards; and, optionally, over more than one sentence. The function is usually bound to the key command M-e.

• Complete forward-sentence:
• fwd-sentence while loops: Two while loops.
• fwd-sentence re-search: A regular expression search.