The E2 Emacs Reference Guide
Some conventions
C- - press and hold the Ctrl key
M- - press and hold the Meta key (usually Alt/Esc on PC keyboards, and diamond on *nix ones)
Starting and leaving emacs
emacs - Starts emacs
C-z - Suspends the current session
C-w C-c - Exits emacs
Navigating around the editor window
Cursor motion:
entity to move over backward forward
character C-b C-f
word M-b M-f
line C-p C-n
beginning or end of line C-a C-e
beginning or end of sentence M-a M-e
beginning or end of page C-x [ C-x ]
Scroll motion:
C-v - Next screen
M-v - Previous screen
C-x < - Scroll left
C-x > - Scroll right
File Operations
C-x C-f - Open a file
C-x C-s - Save a file
C-x i - Insert a file into the current buffer
C-x C-w - Save the current buffer
Killing and deleting text
entity to kill backward forward
character (delete, not kill) DEL C-d
word M-DEL M-d
line (to end of) M-0 C-k C-k
sentence C-x DEL M-k
M-z - Kill to next occurrence of char
Formatting
TAB - Indent current line
C-M \ - Indent region
C-o - Insert newline after point
C-M-o - Move rest of line vertically down
C-x C-o - Delete blank lines around point
M-\ - Delete all white space around point
C-x . - Set prefix each line starts with
M-u - Uppercase word
M-l - Lowercase word
M-c - Capitalise word
Help
C-h t - Start the tutorial
C-x 1 - Close Help window
Esc C-v - Scroll Help windows
Searching
C-s - Search forward
C-r - Search backward
C-g - Cancels Search
Error Recovery
C-g - Abort command
C-x - Undo
For further information see http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs/html_mono/emacs.html
This was an attempt to drag together a beginners guide to emacs
Any additions/corrections /msg me
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