Emacs Tutorial Cheat Sheet

TUTORIAL.txt

# Moving short-cuts
C-v     next page
M-v     previous page
C-l     make cursor middle
        Number means how many lines above this line 

C-n     next line
C-p     previous line
C-f     one character forward
C-b     one character backward
M-f     one word forward
M-b     one word backward

C-a     Begin of a line
C-e     End of a line
M-a     Begin of a sentence
M-e     End of a sentence

M-<     Begin of the text
M->     End of the text

# Repeating
C-u NUM
M-NUM 

C-v & M-v with Repeating will do on lines instead of screens

# Stopping
C-g     stop any executing command, discard wrongly typed short cuts

# Windows
C-x 1   One window 

# Deletion
<DelBack>   
C-d     same with <Delete>

M-<DelBack> kill word
M-d     kill word afterwards

C-k     kill to end of line
        Repeating will result in killing the number of rows

M-k     kill to end of sentence

# Mark
C-<SPC> Start marking
C-w     kill marked

# Yank
C-y     yanking
M-y     replacing current yanking to previous buffers

# Undo
C-x u 

# File
C-x C-f file name   Find a file
C-x C-s     Save file

# Buffer 
C-x C-b     Show list of buffers
C-x s       Save some buffers

# Extending the Command set 
C-x     Character extend. Followed by one character.
M-x     Named command extend. Followed by a long name.
C-x C-c     Exit Emacs asking for modified buffers.

# Auto Save 
M-x recover file        recover to the auto-saved data

# Mode 
M-x text-mode       for example
C-h m               document for current major mode 

# Search 
C-s     Search forward
C-r     Search backward

# Multiple Windows
C-x o   change to other buffer
M-C-v   scroll in the other window

# Recursive Editing Levels
ESC-ESC-ESC     All-purpose get out

# More Help
C-h ?   really lost
C-h C-g cancel
C-h c COMMAND-CHRARCTER-OR-SEQUENCE         show command name being called
C-h c C-p

C-h k COMMAND       show more detailed info about the command 
C-h f function name         explain a function
C-h v variable name     Show doc for variables that could change the behaviour of Emacs
C-h a   Command Apropos. Type in a keyword, Emacs will list all commands containing the keyword
C-h i   Online document

# More features
Completion
Dired