| Note: "C-" means "Control-", and "M-" means
"meta-" or "Esc-". |
To move around within this document use the following links:
[ Starting Emacs ]
[ Leaving Emacs ]
[ File Handling ]
[ Starting Emacs ]
[ Error Recovery ]
[ Incremental Search ]
[ Motion ]
[ Killing and Deleting ]
[ Marking ]
[ Query Replace ]
[ Multiple Windows ]
[ Formatting ]
[ Change Case ]
[ The Minibuffer ]
Starting Emacs |
| To enter emacs, just type its name:
emacs |
| See the section on Files for how
to read in a file to edit. |
Leaving Emacs |
| suspend emacs (the usual way of leaving) |
C-z |
| end emacs session |
C-x C-c |
Files |
| read a file into emacs |
C-x C-f |
| save a file back to disk |
C-x C-s |
| insert contents of another file into this buffer |
C-x i |
| replace this file with the file you really want |
C-x C-v |
| write buffer to a specified file |
C-x C-w |
| run Dired, the directory editor |
C-x d |
Getting Help |
| The Help system is simple. Type C-h and
follow the directions. If you are a first-time user, type C-h t for a
tutorial. |
| get rid of the Help window |
C-x 1 |
| scroll Help window |
ESC C-v |
| apropos: show commands matching a string |
C-h a |
| show the function key runs |
C-h c |
| describe a function |
C-h f |
| get mode-specific information |
C-h m |
Error Recovery |
| abort partially typed or executing command |
C-g |
| recover a file lost by a system crash |
M-x recover-file |
| undo an unwanted change |
C-x u or C-_ |
| restore a buffer to its original contents |
M-x revert-buffer |
| redraw garbaged screen |
C-l |
Incremental Search |
| search forward |
C-s |
| search backward |
C-r |
| regular expression search |
C-M-s |
| If emacs is still searching, C-g will
cancel the part of the search not done, otherwise it aborts the entire
search. |
Motion |
| Cursor motion: |
| entity to move over |
backward |
forward |
| character |
C-b |
C-f |
| word |
M-b |
M-f |
| line |
C-p |
C-n |
| beginning or end of line |
C-a |
C-e |
| beginning or end of sentence |
M-a |
M-e |
| beginning or end of page |
C-x [ |
C-x ] |
| beginning or end of sexp |
C-M-b |
C-M-f |
| beginning or end of function |
C-M-a |
C-M-e |
| beginning or end of buffer |
M-< |
M-> |
| Scroll motion: |
| scroll to next screen |
C-v |
| scroll to previous screen |
M-v |
| scroll left |
C-x < |
| scroll right |
C-x > |
Killing and Deleting
|
| Entity to kill |
backward |
forward |
| character (delete, not kill) |
DEL |
C-d |
| word |
M-DEL |
M-d |
| line (to end of) |
M-0 C-k |
C-k |
| sentence |
C-x DEL |
M-k |
| sexp |
M-- C-M-k |
C-M-k |
| kill region |
C-w |
| kill to next occurrence of char |
M-z char |
| yank back last thing killed |
C-y |
| replace last yank with previous kill |
M-y |
Marking |
| set mark here |
C-@ or C-SPC |
| exchange point and mark |
C-x C-x |
| set mark arg words away |
M-@ |
| mark paragraph |
M-h |
| mark page |
C-x C-p |
| mark sexp |
C-M-@ |
| mark function |
C-M-h |
| mark entire buffer |
C-x h |
Query Replace |
| interactively replace a text string |
M-% |
| using regular expressions |
M-x query-replace-regexp |
| Valid responses in query-replace mode
are: |
| replace this time, go on to next |
SPC |
| replace this one, don't move |
. |
| skip to the next without replacing |
DEL |
| replace all remaining matches |
! |
| back up to the previous match |
^ |
| exit query-replace |
ESC |
| enter recursive edit (C-M-c to exit) |
C-r |
Multiple Windows |
| delete all other windows |
C-x 1 |
| delete this window |
C-x 0 |
| split window in 2 vertically |
C-x 2 |
| split window in 2 horizontally |
C-x 5 |
| scroll other window |
C-M-v |
| switch cursor to other window |
C-x o |
| shrink window shorter |
M-x shrink-window |
| grow window taller |
C-x ^ |
| select a buffer in other window |
C-x 4 b |
| find file in other window |
C-x 4 f |
| compose mail in other window |
C-x 4 m |
| run Dired in other window |
C-x 4 d |
| find tag in other window |
C-x 4 . |
|
| indent current line (mode-dependent) |
TAB |
| indent region (mode-dependent) |
C-M-\ |
| indent sexp (mode-dependent) |
C-M-q |
| indent region rigidly arg columns |
C-x TAB |
| insert newline after point |
C-o |
| move rest of line vertically down |
C-M-o |
| delete blank lines around point |
C-x C-o |
| delete all white space around point |
M-\ |
| put exactly one space at point |
M-SPC |
| fill paragraph |
M-q |
| fill region |
M-g |
| set fill column |
C-x f |
| set prefix each line starts with |
C-x . |
Change Case |
| uppercase word |
M-u |
| lowercase word |
M-l |
| capitalize word |
M-c |
| uppercase region |
C-x C-u |
| lowercase region |
C-x C-l |
| capitalize region |
M-x capitalize region |
The Minibuffer |
| The following keys are defined in the minibuffer: |
| complete as much as possible |
TAB |
| complete up to one word |
SPC |
| complete and execute |
RET |
| show possible completions |
? |
| abort command |
C-g |
| Type C-x ESC to edit and repeat the last
command that used the minibuffer. The following keys are then
defined: |
| previous minibuffer command |
M-p |
| next minibuffer command |
M-n |
