Emacs Texteditor | Basic | Cheat sheet

Basic usage

$ TAB - Indent C-w - Cut M-w - Copy C-y - Paste ("yank") C-SPACE - Begin selection C-s - Search/Find M-% (M-SHIFT-5) - Replace C-x C-s - Save C-x C-w - Save as C-x C-f - Load/Open C-x u - Undo C-x h - Highlight all text C-x d - Directory listing C-g - Cancel a command C-x C-+ - Font size bigger C-x C-- - Font size smaller

Buffers

$ C-x 2 - Split screen vertically C-u 5 C-x 2 - Split screen vertically with 5 row height C-x 3 - Split screen horizontally C-u 24 C-x 3 - Split screen horizontally with 24 column width C-x 1 - Revert to single screen C-x 0 - Hide the current screen C-x o - Move to the next screen C-x k - Kill the current buffer C-x b - Select a buffer C-x C-e - Run command in the scratch buffer

Navigation

$ C-b, C-f - Character-wise M-b, M-f - Word-wise C-p, C-n - Line-wise M-a, M-e - Sentence-wise M-{ , M-} - Paragraph-wise C-M-a, C-M-e - Function-wise C-a, C-e - Line beginning / end

Other stuff

$ M-x eshell - Open a shell M-x goto-line - Goto a line number M-x toggle-word-wrap - Word wrap M-x flyspell-mode - Spell checking M-x linum-mode - Line numbers M-x visual-line-mode - Toggle line wrap M-x compile - Compile some code M-x package-list-packages - List packages