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Usually <left> is bound to 'left-char
I have never edited this in my init file or <right> for that matter.
However recently when I'm at the beggining of a line and I type <left> it does not go to the last letter of the line above
(or the first letter of the line below if you press <right> at the end of the line)
I was wondering if any of you have encountered this issue in the past.
I have a sizeable Init file spanning multiple files and I'm not sure how to tackle this issue.

Thanks in advance for the help.

I have tried

(global-unset-key (kbd "<left>") )        
(global-set-key (kbd "<left>") 'left-char)

The strange thing is if I call <M-X left char> at the beginning of the line it behaves perfectly normal

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  • Major modes often modify keymaps (e.g d in fundamental-mode inserts it, but the same key in dired-mode marks a file for deletion). You can find out what the key is bound to, using C-h c. The name of the function often gives a clue about who did the rebinding. – NickD Aug 7 '17 at 17:27
  • What was the command that <left> was bound to, if not left-char? – YoungFrog Aug 8 '17 at 20:43
  • strangely enough it was also left-char , no rebinding happened so I assume it was some odd bug with the byte-compiled multiple-cursors – SerialDev Aug 9 '17 at 9:14
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The error seems to be in multiple-cursors mode. It stopped as soon as I removed the following from my .emacs file

(package-install 'multiple-cursors)
(require 'multiple-cursors)

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-c") 'mc/edit-lines)


(global-unset-key (kbd "M-<down-mouse-1>"))
(global-set-key (kbd "M-<mouse-1>") 'mc/add-cursor-on-click)
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    If this resolves your problem, could you please mark your own answer as accepted? – Dan♦ Oct 6 '17 at 15:07

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