Emacs commands

                                                   EMACS COMMANDS       

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• The user uses special keys to send commands to Emacs.
• —Commands in emacs are either control characters (hold down the <Ctrl>key while typing another character) or are prefixed by one of a set of reserved characters: <Esc> or <Ctrl>-X.
• —The (Meta Key) <Esc> key can be typed by itself (because it really is a character) and then followed by another character;
• —The <Ctrl> key must be held down while the next character is being typed.

            Help commands

C-h	help-command: first character in lots of useful help commands
C-h t	help-with-tutorial: command to run the tutorial
C-h i	information: describes most of the emacs commands in man style pages
C-h k	describe-key: tells you what a particular key stroke does
C-h a	command-apropos: prompts for a string and   then searches for all emacs commands that contains that string
ESC ?	also does command-apropos
C-h ?	help-for-help: describes how to use the help facilities

File Reading and Writing Commands

C-x C-f	find-file: first prompts for a filename and   then loads that file into a editor buffer of the same name
C-x C-s	save-buffer: saves the buffer into the associated filename
C-x C-w	write-named-file: prompts for a new filename and writes the buffer into it

Cursor/ Screen Movement Commands
 

C-a	Move cursor to beginning of line
C –e	Move cursor to end of line
C –f	Move cursor forward one character
C-b	Move cursor backward one character
C-n	Move cursor to next line
C-p	Move cursor to previous line
C-v	Scroll file forward by one screenful

 

Esc  v	Scroll file backward by one screen full
Esc  <	Go to beginning of buffer.
Esc  >	Go to end of buffer.
Esc  f	Move cursor forward one word.
Esc  b	Move cursor backward one word.