C
: Control key
M
: Meta key
C-g
- Exit command
C-x C-c
- Quit Emacs
C-l
- Center the page on point
C-v
- Move down a page
M-v
- Move up a page
C-M-p
- Scroll half a page up
C-M-n
- Scroll half a page down
C-f
- Move forward a character
C-b
- Move backward a character
M-f
- Move forward a word
M-b
- Move backward a word
C-n
- Move to next line
C-p
- Move to previous line
C-a
- Move to beginning of line
C-e
- Move to end of line
M-a
- Move back to beginning of sentence
M-e
- Move forward to end of sentence
M-<
- (META Less-than) Move to beginning of whole text
M->
- (META Greater-than) Move to end of whole
M-g M-g
or M-g g
- Go to line
<DEL>
- Delete the character just before the
C-d
- Delete the next character after the
M-<DEL>
- Kill the word immediately before the
M-d
- Kill the next word after the cursor
C-k
- Kill from the cursor position to end of line
M-k
- Kill to the end of the current sentence
C-<SPC>
- Mark start of region
C-w
- Kill text in marked region
C-y
- Yank text to current position
M-y
- Yank text that was previously killed
C-/
- Undo
C-_
- Undo
C-x u
- Undo
C-s
- Search forward
C-r
- Search reverse
C-s C-s
- Repeat previous search forward
C-r C-r
- Repeat previous search reverse
M-q
or M-x fill-paragraph
- Reindent paragraph (See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FillParagraph)
See https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Case.html
M-l
- Convert following word to lower case (downcase-word).
M-u
- Convert following word to upper case (upcase-word).
M-c
- Capitalize the following word (capitalize-word).
C-x C-l
- Convert region to lower case (downcase-region).
C-x C-u
- Convert region to upper case (upcase-region).
C-x h
- runs the command mark-whole-buffer
C-M-\
- runs the command indent-region
C-x C-b
- List buffers
C-x C-f
- Find file
C-x C-s
- Save file
C-x k
- Kill buffer
C-x s
- Save some buffers
C-x C-b
- List buffers
C-x b
- Switch
C-x 1
- Delete all but one window
C-x 2
- Open 2nd window
C-x o
- Switch to 'other' window
M-x mode
- Switch to major mode, 'mode'
C-h m
- Read documentation for current major mode