Original: http://www.rgrjr.com/emacs/emacs_cheat.html
UNDO: C-_ ("control underscore") or C-/
Find (or Create) file: C-x C-f
Save file: C-x C-s
Exit Emacs: C-x C-c
Quit (i.e. interrupt) command: C-g
Kill buffer: C-x k
Cursor
Motion |
Operation |
| Move |
Delete |
| Amount |
forward |
backward |
forward |
backward |
| Characters |
C-f |
C-b |
C-d |
DEL |
| Words |
M-f |
M-b |
M-d |
M-DEL |
| Lines |
C-n |
C-p |
C-k (to EOL) |
C-SPC C-a C-w |
| End/start of line |
C-e |
C-a |
(repeat count goes to following lines) |
| End/start of buffer |
M-> |
M-< |
(no repeat count) | |
| Cutting and Pasting |
| C-SPC |
Mark one end of region |
| C-w |
Cut (after you Mark and move to other end) |
| M-w |
Copy (after you Mark and move to other end) |
| C-y |
Yank (paste) most recently killed (cut or copied); will also use text currently selected in another application. |
| M-y |
Next most recently killed (do C-y first, repeat M-y to cycle thru all) |
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| Scrolling and Windows |
| C-v |
Scroll down (toward end of buffer) |
| M-v |
Scroll up (toward beginning of buffer) |
| C-M-v |
Scroll other window down |
| C-x 1 |
One window on current buffer |
| C-x 2 |
Split window vertically |
| C-x 3 |
Split window horizontally |
| C-x ^ |
Grow window vertically; prefix is number of lines |
| Command-related Stuff |
| ESC ESC ESC |
Get me out of where I am now |
| C-u # |
Prefix numeric arg # (digits with optional "-" sign) to next cmd |
| C-g |
Stop a command in progress, or quit out of a partially entered command |
| Getting help |
| C-h k |
Show command documentation; prompts for keystrokes |
| C-h a |
"Command apropos"; prompts for regexp and shows all matching commands |
| C-h c |
Show command name on message line; prompts for keystrokes |
| C-h f |
Describe function; prompts for command or function name, shows documentation in other window |
| C-h i |
Info browser; gives access to online documentation for emacs and more |
| Miscellaneous |
| C-_ or C-x u |
Undo/redo (a series of these keeps undoing; after doing something else, C-_ or C-x u will undo the undo's) |
| C-q |
Quoted insert; inserts the next character typed, even if it is a control or meta character |
| M-x shell-strip-ctrl-m RET |
Flush ^M at end of line |
| C-z |
Suspend/iconify emacs (type "%emacs" in invoking shell to get it back) |
| C-x C-c |
Exit emacs (asks about unsaved buffers and running programs) | |
| Files and Buffers |
| C-x C-f |
Find file (or create if not there); prompts for file name |
| C-x C-s |
Save file |
| C-x C-w |
Write file; prompts for new name |
| C-x s |
Save modified buffers; asks about each |
| C-x b |
Select buffer; prompts for buffer name |
| C-x C-b |
List buffers; shows in other window |
| Searching/Replacing |
| C-s |
Incremental search forward; searches as you type |
| C-r |
Incremental search backward |
| M-x replace-string RET |
String replace from here to end of buffer; prompts for string and replacement |
| M-x query-replace RET |
String replace from here to end of buffer, querying for each occurrence | |