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

C-l Clear screen and redisplay all the text, moving the text around the cursor to the center of the screen. C-l C-l or C-u 0 C-l Clear screen and bring this line to the top of screen

M-< or ESC-< Moves to the beginning of the whole text
M-> or ESC-> Moves to the end of the whole text.the of the whole text

C-u 8 C-f or M-8 C-f Moves forward eight characters

C-u 8 C-v Moves forward eight characters

C-g Stop a command which is taking too long to execute.
C-g Discard a numeric argument or the beginning of a command that you do not want to finish.

Some Emacs commands are "disabled" so that beginning users cannot use them by accident.

If you type C-x C-l, you get:

C-x 1 One window (i.e., kill all other windows).

<DEL> Delete the character just before the cursor
C-d Delete the next character after the cursor

M-<DEL> Kill the word immediately before the cursor
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-y Yank the last killed text
M-y Replaces that yanked text with the previous kill. Typing M-y again and again brings in earlier and earlier kills
C-u 2 M-y Replaces that yanked text with the second previous kill.

C-u 8 * insert 8 *

C-u 2 C-k kills two lines and their Newlines

C-/ or C-_ Undo the change.

C-x C-f Find a file
C-x C-s Save the file

C-x C-b List buffers
C-x b Switch buffers
C-x s Save some buffers

C-x Character eXtend. Followed by one character.
M-x Named command eXtend. Followed by a long name.

Examples C-x C-f Find file
C-x C-s Save file
C-x s Save some buffers
C-x C-b List buffers
C-x b Switch buffer
C-x C-c Quit Emacs
C-x 1 Delete all but one window
C-x u Undo

C-z Exit Emacs temporarily.
C-z On terminal, suspens Emacs. Use "fg" or "%emacs" to resume

M-x recover-this-file <Return> Recover the visited file. Get contents from its last auto-save file.

M-x text-mode <Return> Toggles the text mode
M-x auto-fill-mode <Return> Toggles the auto fill mode
C-x f Change the margin for the auto fill mode. Default is 70 characters
C-u 20 C-x f Set the margin for the auto fill mode to 20 using a argument
M-q Re-fill a paragraph if the auto fill mode was changed in the middle of a paragraph

C-s Forward search
C-r Reverse search

C-x 2 Splits the screen into two windows. Display the same file in both windows
C-x 4 C-f Open a second window to display an other file
C-M-v Scroll other window
C-x o Select other window
C-v Scroll up
M-v Scroll down

C-x 5 2 Create a new frame
C-x 5 0 Remove the selected frame

M-x then type <ESC> <ESC> <ESC> Get out the recursive editing level

C-h The help character
C-h ? Emacs will tell you what kinds of help it can give
C-h c Describe key briefly
C-h c C-p Emacs displays a very brief description of C-p
C-h k C-p To get more information about a command, use C-h k instead of C-h c
C-h f Describe a function
C-h v Describe a variable
C-h a Command Apropos. Type in a keyword and Emacs will list all the commands whose names contain that keyword.
C-h a file <Return> Displays a list of all M-x commands with "file" in their names.
C-h i Info buffer. You can read included manuals
C-h i m emacs <Return> Info buffer. Read the Emacs manual

C-h r Display the Emacs manual in Info mode

C-x C-c Exit Emacs

This tutorial descends from a long line of Emacs tutorials starting with the one written by Stuart Cracraft for the original Emacs.

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