Command

Description

C-h

Help command

C-h t

Help with tutorial

C-h i

Describes most help command in man style pages

C-h ?

Help for Help command.

C-x C-f

Find-file: Prompts for file name then loads the file in buffer

C-x C-s

Save-Buffer: Saves the Buffer associated with the file name

C-x C-w

Write-named file: prompts for a new file name and writes the buffer in it

C-a

Moves the cursor at the beginning of the line

C-e

Moves the cursor at the end of the line

C-f

Moves cursor forward one character

C-b

Moves cursor backward one character

C-n

Moves the cursor to the next line

C-p

Moves the cursor to the previous line

C-v

Scoll file forward by 1 screenful

ESC v

Scroll file backward by 1 screenful

ESC <

Go to the beginning of the buffer

ESC >

Go to the end of buffer

ESC f

Move cursor forward one word

ESC b

Move cursor backword one word

C-d

Delete the character under the cursor

ESC d

delete the word from under the cursor

C-k

Delete the rest of the current line

C-@

set-mark-command used to denote the beginning of the text area that will be deleted

C-w

Used to delete the text between the set-mark and the current cursor position

C-y

Insert at current cursor location what was most recently deleted

ESC w

Copy-region-as-kill: Copy area between mark and cursor into kill-buffer so that it can be yanked into some other place

C-s

issearch-forward: prompts for text string and then searches for the string from the current cursor position forward in the buffer.

C-r

issearch-backward: similar to issearch-forward but searches in the backward direction.

ESC %

query-replace: prompts for a search string and a string with which to replace the searched string.

C-x C-c

Saves-buffers-kill-emacs: On finishing editing, this will save the buffer and kill the emacs sessio and return you to the *nix prompt.

C-g

Keyboard-quit: this aborts a command in process.

C-u

Universal-argument: If a command has to be executed several times, this command is used, followed by a number of times the command is to be repeated.

C-x u

Undo: the last command typed in case a mistake was made