Mastering emacs shortcuts and important stuff. Under frequent revision...
key
Cmd
C-x d
Open Dir
C-g
Quit all the things
C-x C-f
File Open
C-x C-s
File Save
C-x k
Kill Buffer
C-x <-/->
Previous/Next Buffer
C-x C-b
List all buffers - ibuffer
C-x b
Open/new buffer
M-x shell: Dumb terminal buffer
M-x term: proper ansi terminal emulator. C-c C-j line mode (to use it as a normal emacs buffer). C-c C-k char mode (normal terminal mode)
M-x eshell: elisp emulator
key
Cmd
C-8 something
Repeate
C-v
Scroll down
M-v
Scroll up
C-M-v
Scroll down other window
C-M-- C-M-v
Scroll up the other window
C-u M-|
run shell command on selection (eg python -m json.tool)
C-x C-+ (-)
increase buffer font size
key
Cmd
C-a
Move to the beggining of the line
M-m
Move to first non white space in line
C-e
Move to end of line
M-f
Move forward one word
M-b
Move backwards one word
C-f
Move forward one character
C-b
Move backwords one character
C-p
Move to previous line
C-n
Move to next line
M-</> (C-u C-SPC)
Move to begining/end of buffer
C-SPC C-SPC
Sets the mark but disables the region
C-x C-x
Exchanges the point and the mark and reactivates the last region
M-g g
Go to Line
M-i
imenu (List functions in buffer)
C-r
Scrolls buffer around line (cool for quick look ups)
M-@
mark word
C-x C-\
goto-last-change
C-x C-SPC
move to where cursor was (useful if you made a mistake)
key
Cmd
C-x c
prefix
C-x c C-c g
google completion
helm-for-files
helm search file feature
key
Cmd
M-(
Wrap
C-right
Forward slurp
C-M-left
Backward slurp
C-left
Forward barf
C-M-right
Backward barf
C-M-k
Kills the balanced exp
C-M-f/b
Move between sexp
C-M-n/p
Move forward to the next/pevious list
C-M-d/u
Move down/up into a list
C-SPC
Select sexp
key
Cmd
C-s/C-r
Regex search in buffer. C-s/C-r again to cycle (C-x C-x to go back)
C-w
Adds word at point to search string
C-M-y/w
Adds/removes char at point
M-s w
Toggles word mode
M-x occur
Isearch like nice feature
(M-g) M-n/p
Cycle occurences
e
switch to occur edit mode
C-c C-c
Exists edit mode and applies changes
M-x multi-occur-in-matching-buffers
multi occur
C-M-%
query regexp search and replace (works from isearch)
M-%
query search and replace (works from isearch)
y . , ! u
confirm/replace and exit/replace and stay/all/undo
key
Cmd
C-spc Create selection
backspace
Delete selected region
C-w
Kill region
M-w
Copy Region - add to Ring
M-d
Deletes word - adds to Kill Ring
C-y
Yanks killed text
M-y
Cycles next item on Kill Ring
C-k
Kill Line from point
C-S-BKS
Kill line
C-cy
Yank menu
C-M-k
Kill s-expression
C-M-w
Apperd new kill to an old kill
key
Cmd
package-list-packages
Handling Packages
package-refresh-contents
package-install
replace-string
replaces string in buffer or selected region
cider-jack-in
fires cider repl
upcase-initials-region
Capitalizes region
count-words
Counts lines, words, and characters in buffer
count-matches
delete-duplicate-lines
flush(keep)-lines
Flushes or deletes lines in a buffer (usefull for logs)
delete-trailing-whitespace
Deletes all trailing whitespace
sort-line
align-regex
aligns region usig regex in the minibuffer
C-u M-c align-regex.
complex align command, aligns multiple columns. bit brainfuck
key
Cmd
C-h s
Syntax table
C-h k bindind
get help for keybinding
C-h f
get help for function
prefix C-hget help for any key prefix
C-h a
apropos command (list commands that match a pattern). Also check M-x apropos-variable
M-x info or C-h i
info manual
M-x info-appropos
Search info manual for a string
C-h d
Search doc strings of elisp code
C-h m
Finds mode command
key
Cmd
C-x o
Switch to another window
C-x 1
Delete all other windows, leaving only the current one. Does not close buffers
C-x 2
Split frame above and below
C-x 3
Split horizontal
C-x 0
Delete current window
C-c left/rig
Undo/redo window state (needs winner-mode on)
S-arrows
Move around frames
key
Cmd
C-c M-j
cider jack in
C-h m
Help in cider
C-x C-e
Evaluate in repl
C-c M-n
Set namespace in repl
C-c C-k
Compile current buffer in the repl session
C-up/down
repl history
C-c C-d C-d
Docs in the repl, q to quit
M-./M-,
Show source code in the repl, return to repl
C-c C-d C-a
find arbitrary search across function names and docs
C-c M-p
Load the form preceding point in the REPL buffer.
C-c C-b
Interrupt repl evaluation
C-c C-o
clean last repl output
C-c M-n n
Select namespace
C-c C-u
Kill input
C-p/n
navigate downwards/upwards (RET to past exp in input)
M-p/n
after cider-repl-next-matching-input
C-M-r
cider restart
C-c u
cider user ns in repl
C-c C-t C-t
runs test
C-c C-t C-n
runs all tests in namespace
C-c C-u
undefine symbols if you delete a test from the test namespace
key
Cmd
C-M-q
Reindents sexp
C-M-\
Indents region using major mode indent command
C-x TAB
Hard indent
C-/
Undo
C-j
New Line and Indent (now RET)
M-/
DAbbrev (configured as Hippie Expand) - expands word at the point, press again to cycle
C-M-/
DAbbrev (configured as Hippie Expand) - cycles through possible expansions of the text before point
M-\
Delete all spaces and tabs around point
C-d
Deletes the caracter at point
M-d
Kill word
C-M-k
kill s-expression
C-t
transpose characters
M-t
transpose words (ignores symbols)
C-M-t
transpose s-expressions
C-x C-t
transpose lines
M-q
Refill command (commands and stuff)
C-x C-;
comments current line
M-j
indent new line in comment
C-x C-u/l
Upper(lower)cases the region
M-c
Capitalizes next word, (M-- inverts)
M-u/l
Upper(lower)cases next word, (M-- inverts)
C-o
Inserts a blank line after point
C-x C-o
Deletes all blank lines after the point
M-ˆ
Joins the line the point is on with the one above
C-x C-t
Transposes lines
C-t
Transposes char
M-q
Refils Paragraph/comments (C-x f sets fill width)
M-z
kills up to a given character
Key
Cmd
C-x d
Prompts for dir
C-d
lists dir when for instance in open file mode
i
appends sub-dir to buffer
q
returns to parent dir
o
visits file in another buffer
C-o
opens file in another buffer
v
opens file in same buffer in view mode
Key
Cmd
C-c-p f
projectile-find-file
key
Cmd
C-x r m
Set a bookmark
r l
List bookmarks
r b
Jump to bookmarks
key
Cmd
C-x r s
Store region in registry
C-x r j
jump to register
C-x r i
insert content of register
key
Cmd
M-x rgrep
recursive grep with a bunch of defaults
M-g M-n
Next occurence
M-g M-p
Previous occurence
key
Cmd
C-u C-M-x
evaluate function
key
Cmd
C-S-c C-S-c
Cursors in region
C-,
mark-previous-like-this
C-.
mark-next-like-this
C-c C-,
mark-all-like-this
C-x r y
pastes multiple cursor (rectangle kill ring)
C-x r k
kills multiple cursor (rectangle kill ring)
set-rectangular-region-anchor
Sublime way of selecting multiple lines
C-v / M-v
scroll between your cursors
key
Cmd
M-$
spell check word
M-x flyspell-mode
minor mode that highlights spelling errors
M-x flyspell-prog-mode
spell checks comments and doc string
M-x ispell-buffer
Runs spell check on buffer
M-x ispell-region
more useful stuff on how to use flyspell minor mode on Mastering Emacs
M-x ielm elisp replC-x C-e eval expressionM-C-x eval and reasigns new definition to var or function. just evaling it doesn't reasign it.
Buffer variables: doing a setq only sets the variable for the current buffer: ex:
show-trailing-whitspace
auto-complete-mode
describe-personal-keybindings (shows keybindgs defined in emacs config)
non-emacs (should rename the gist at some point)
key
Cmd
cmd /
shortcut list
cmd k
slack - channels
cmd shift k
slack - channels
alt shift arrow up/down
navigate unread DM
