My minimal emacs cheat sheet

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October 12 2015

©️ Alireza Pazhouhesh

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Key bindings are expressed as follows:

C-a is Ctrl + a

M-a is Meta + a

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↔️ BASIC CURSER CONTROL

Keystrokes	Action
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 to beginning of sentence
M-e	Move to end of sentence
C-l	Find the cursor (1:Center, 2:Up, 3:Down)
M-g M-g	Go to line

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✔️ SELECT AND MARK

Keystrokes	Action
C-SPC	Select by line
C-x SPC	Select by column
C-x C-x	Go to other end of marked region
M-h	Mark paragraph
C-x C-p	Mark the current page
C-x h	Mark the whole buffer

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❌ INSERTING AND DELETING

Keystrokes	Action
C-d	Delete one char forward
M-d	Cut one word forward
M-DEL	Cut one word backward
C-k	Cut to the end of line
C-w	Cut selected region
M-w	Copy selected region
DEL	Delete the character just before the cursor
C-y	Yanking (Paste)
M-y	Choose what to paste from clipboard
C-u 8 *	********
C-u 2 C-k	Kill two lines.

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⏪ UNDO

Keystrokes	Action
C-/	Undo
C-x u	Undo

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📂 FILES

Keystrokes	Action
C-x C-f	Open file
C-x C-s	Save file
C-x C-w	Save to file named as

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📄 BUFFERS

Keystrokes	Action
C-x C-b	List buffers
C-x s	Save some buffers
C-x b	Switch to a buffer
C-x k	Kill a buffer

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👓 SEARCHING

Keystrokes	Action
C-s	Search forward
C-r	Search backward

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🔁 REPEATING

Keystrokes	Action
M-n	Repeat n times
C-u	Repeat 4 times
C-u C-u	Repeat 16 times

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🔲 MANAGING WINDOWS

Keystrokes	Action
C-x 1	kill all but the current window
C-x 2	Split windows horizontally
C-x 3	Split windows vertically
C-x 0	Close the current window
C-x ^	Expand vertically
C-x {	Expand horizontally
C-x 4 C-f	Find file in a new window
C-M-v	Scroll another window
C-X-o	Go to another other window

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✅ SPELL CHECKING

Keystrokes	Action
M-$	ispell check a single word
M-x ispell-region	check selected region
M-x ispell_buffer	check current buffer
M-x flyspell-mode	use flyspell
M-x ispell-change-dictionary	Set spelling dictionary

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SHELL

Keystrokes	Action
M-!	Execute shell command
C-u M-!	Execute shell command and put output in current buffer
M-x shell	Shell mode

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#️⃣ SHELL MODE

Keystrokes	Action
C-c C-z	Equal C-z command
C-c C-d	Equal C-d command
C-c C-c	Equal C-c command

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ℹ️ GETTING HELP

Keystrokes	Action
C-h ?	Help suggestions
C-h c	Basic help
C-h f	Describe a function
C-h k	Describe a keystroke
C-h a	Command apropos
C-h i	Read included manuals
C-h r	The emacs editor help
q	Close Help buffer