Emacs Quick Reference
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The following reference guide is by no means all-inclusive, but is
meant to aid the beginning user in navigating the keystroke-intensive
Emacs program. The abbreviation C- refers
to holding down the <Control> key
while pressing what follows, while the abbreviation ESC- refers to pressing the <ESC> key and what follows.
Quick Reference:
Point Movement
| C-f | Move point forward one character. |
| C-b | Move point backward one character. |
| C-p | Move point to previous line. |
| C-n | Move point to next line. |
| C-a | Move point to beginning of current line. |
| C-e | Move point to end of current line. |
| Esc-f | Move point forward one word. |
| Esc-b | Move point backwards one word. |
| C-v | Move down one screen. |
| Esc-v | Move up one screen. |
| Esc-< | Move point to start of current buffer. |
| Esc-> | Move point to end of current buffer. |
Note: In addition to these keys, standard keys, such
as <left>, <right>, <up>, <down>,
<Page-Up>, and <Page-Down> can also be used to move the
point cursor on most terminals
Marking The point
| C-@ | Mark the current point location (also performed by C-<SpaceBar>). |
| C-x h | Mark entire buffer as the region, with mark at end and place point at start. |
Editing Commands
| C-k | Delete the current line to the right. |
| C-w | Delete the current region. |
| ESC-w | Copy a region. |
| C-y | Yank (paste) the last region or set of lines deleted at the current point. |
| C-d | Delete next character. |
| Esc-d | Kill next word (can be yanked back). |
| Esc-DEL | Kill previous word. |
File Commands
| C-x C-s | Save file but do not quit Emacs. |
| C-x C-c | Quit Emacs, giving option to save if there are unsaved changes. |
| C-x C-w | Write file, option to change the filename. |
| C-x i | Insert a file at the current point. |
| C-x C-f | Edit another file. |
Buffer and Screen Commands
| C-l | Refresh the screen. |
| C-v | Move down a screen. |
| ESC-v | Move up a screen. |
| C-x 2 | Split the screen
vertically into two windows. |
| C-x 3 | Split the screen
horizontally into two windows. |
| C-x o | Move to the other window. |
| C-x 1 | Fill screen with current window. |
| C-x 0 | Delete currently selected window. |
| C-x C-b | List all of the current buffers. |
| C-x b | Switch to buffer (Emacs prompts for the buffer's name). |
| ESC-x shell | Start a UNIX shell in the current buffer. |
Search and Replace
| C-s | Search forward; pushing C-s again Searches for the next occurrence. |
| C-r | Search backward; pushing C-r again searches for the next occurrence. |
| C-g | Cancel the current search or go back to previously found search item if search was done again. |
| ESC-x replace string | Replaces all occurrences of first string with second string. |
| ESC-% | Replace the first string with the second string, but query for each occurrence (n goes to next, y replaces). |
Miscellaneous Commands
| ESC-x spell buffer | Check spelling of the current buffer. |
| ESC-x spell word | Check spelling of the word at the point. |
| C-q | Allow the insertion of a control sequence. |
| ESC-c | Capitalizes character at the point and makes rest of word lowercase. |
| ESC-l |
| ESC-u | Changes word to uppercase from the point to the end of the word. |
Help and Useful Commands
| C-h | Start help. C-h three times for help menu. |
| C-g | Stops current command. |
| C-x u | Undo the last keystroke. |
| ESC-# | Completes a command # times (where # is a number). |
Last Updated: Friday, June 02, 2006 at 12:07PM PDT
