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Miscellaneous
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emacs -q Start Emacs without running .emacs
C-x C-c End emacs
C-x u Undo
M-no. command Execute command with a numeric argument
C-q 007 Insert control character, here bell
C-q C-l Insert control character, here ctrl-l
C-x C-d List directory
C-u C-x C-d Verbose directory listing
C-o Open line
C-x =[l] Display location, column etc., [line]
<tab> Complete command and wait
<insert> Toggles insert/overwrite mode
M-x recover-file Restores the auto-saved file, after a crash
M-x manual-entry Displays a Unix man page
M-x shell Start a shell in a separate buffer
Buffers
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C-x C-b List buffers
C-x a Append current region to another buffer
C-x b Go to buffer
C-x k Kill buffer
C-x C-s Save buffer
M-x cd Change current buffer's default directory
M-x copy-to-buffer Move region to buffer
C-x C-b Start buffer menu
1 selects the current buffer for display
d mark for deletion
f display sel. buffer in place of buffer w.
k mark for deletion
o select curr. buffer in another window
s mark for saving
u undo save and delete marks
x execute delete/save
Command history
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C-x <esc><esc> Re-execute previous minibuffer command
M-p[n] Display previous[next] command
M-x list-command-history
Cursor
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C-x C-x Exchange point and mark
C-a[e] Start[end] of line
C-M-a[e] Start[end] of the current function
C-M-n[p] Forward/backward over a parenthetical group
C-M-f[b] Forward/backward over a balanced expression
C-b[f] Character backward [forward]
C-n[p] Line forward [backward]
C-u C-<spc> Step through mark ring
C-v [M-v] Screen forward [backward]
M-x goto-line To a particular line
M-<, M-> Go to begin [end] of the buffer
Delete
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C-d Delete character
C-k Kill line
C-w Kill region
C-y Yank
M-w Copy region
M-y Step through kill ring
Windows
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C-x 0 delete current window
C-x 1 delete all other windows
C-x 2 split screen horizontally
C-x 3 split screen vertically
C-x o go to the next window
Files
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C-x C-s Save a buffer to a file
C-x C-f Load a file
C-x C-w Rename buffer and write to file
C-x i Insert a file into the current buffer
Dired
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C-x d Start dired
? short help on dired
+ create directory
c copy
d mark for deletion
e visit file or directory
f visit file or directory
g re-read directory
h help
m mark file
o visit file or directory in another window
q quit dired
R rename
u unmark a file
v view file
x execute deletion
Help
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C-h C-h help for help
C-h a command-apropos
C-h f describe-function
C-h k[c] describe-key [briefly]
C-x C-h help commands
Indenting
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C-M-\ Indent lines in the region
C-u 4 C-M-\ Indent lines in the region to column 4
TAB Indent to next tab
Search
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C-s[r] isearch forward [backward]
<return> exit search
C-g cancel search
C-g stop search and go back
Replace
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M-% Query replace string
<spc> replace this occurence
n skip to next
. replace this string and stop
, replace and let me see the result
! replace all remaining
^ back up to previous instance
C-r enter recursive edit
C-w delete this instance and enter recursive edit
M C-c exit recursive edit and resume query replace
C-] exit recursive edit and exit query replace
q,<ret> exit
Registers
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C-x r SPC a Store current point in reg a. (C-x /)
C-x r i a Retrieve text from reg. a (C-x g)
C-x r j a Jump to position in reg. a (C-x j)
C-x r s a Copy current region to reg. a (C-x x)
Tags
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Unix> etags *.c create the file ./TAGS
M-x visit-tags-file specify a tags file
M-. find tag
Macros
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C-x ( Beginning macro definition
C-x ) End macro definition
C-x e Execute last macro}
C-x q Query (used inside macro definitions)}
<spc> Continue executing the macro
n Skip the rest of the macro and restart
q Skip the rest and stop
C-l Redraw the screen and ask for ...
C-r Enter recursive editing level C-M-c exits
M-x name-last-kbd-macro Name the last macro
C-x C-f ~/.emacs
M-x insert-kbd-macro Writes the named macro to the startup file
Compilation
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M-x compile Compile
M-x grep Run grep over files
C-x ` Visit next error
C-c C-c Visit the source code for the current error message