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26.12.1 C Mode Motion Commands
This section describes commands for moving point, in C mode and related modes.
C-M-a
C-M-e
Move point to the beginning or end of the current function or top-level definition. In languages with enclosing scopes (such as C++’s classes) the current function is the immediate one, possibly inside a scope. Otherwise it is the one defined by the least enclosing braces. (By contrast,
beginning-of-defun
andend-of-defun
search for braces in column zero.) See Moving by Defuns.C-c C-u
Move point back to the containing preprocessor conditional, leaving the mark behind. A prefix argument acts as a repeat count. With a negative argument, move point forward to the end of the containing preprocessor conditional.
‘
#elif
’ is equivalent to ‘#else
’ followed by ‘#if
’, so the function will stop at a ‘#elif
’ when going backward, but not when going forward.C-c C-p
Move point back over a preprocessor conditional, leaving the mark behind. A prefix argument acts as a repeat count. With a negative argument, move forward.
C-c C-n
Move point forward across a preprocessor conditional, leaving the mark behind. A prefix argument acts as a repeat count. With a negative argument, move backward.
M-a
Move point to the beginning of the innermost C statement (
c-beginning-of-statement
). If point is already at the beginning of a statement, move to the beginning of the preceding statement. With prefix argumentn
, move backn
- 1 statements.In comments or in strings which span more than one line, this command moves by sentences instead of statements.
M-e
Move point to the end of the innermost C statement or sentence; like M-a except that it moves in the other direction (
c-end-of-statement
).
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