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The +<b class="KEYCAP">cursor keys</b> and <b class="KEYCAP">PgUp</b>, <b +class="KEYCAP">PgDn</b> do what you'd expect. <b class="KEYCAP">Home</b> and <b +class="KEYCAP">End</b> jump to the beginning and end of the line. (In older versions, +they would actually jump to the beginning and end of the buffer.) However, there are also +<b class="KEYCAP">Control</b> and <b class="KEYCAP">Meta</b> (<b class="KEYCAP">Alt</b>) +key combos that move the cursor around. Because you do not need to move your hands to +another part of the keyboard for these, they are much quicker once you get used to them. +The most important such commands are listed in <a +href="emacs-basic-editing.html#TABLE-EMACS-BASIC-EDITING">Table 17-1</a>.</p> + +<div class="TABLE"><a id="TABLE-EMACS-BASIC-EDITING" +name="TABLE-EMACS-BASIC-EDITING"></a> +<p><b>Table 17-1. Basic Emacs Editing Commands</b></p> + +<table border="0" frame="void" width="100%" class="CALSTABLE"> +<col width="25%" /> +<col width="75%" /> +<thead> +<tr> +<th>Command</th> +<th>Result</th> +</tr> +</thead> + +<tbody> +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">b</b> </td> +<td>go one character back</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">f</b> </td> +<td>go one character forward</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">n</b> </td> +<td>go one line down</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">p</b> </td> +<td>go one line up</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">a</b> </td> +<td>go to the beginning of the line</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">e</b> </td> +<td>go to the end of the line</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">b</b> </td> +<td>go one word back</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">f</b> </td> +<td>go one word forward</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">}</b> </td> +<td>go one paragraph forward</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">{</b> </td> +<td>go one paragraph backward</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">a</b> </td> +<td>go one sentence backward</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">e</b> </td> +<td>go one sentence forward</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">d</b> </td> +<td>delete the character under the cursor</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">d</b> </td> +<td>delete until the end of the current word</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">v</b> </td> +<td>go down one screen (i.e., PgDn)</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">v</b> </td> +<td>go up one screen (i.e., PgUp)</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP"><</b> </td> +<td>go to the beginning of the buffer</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">></b> </td> +<td>go to the end of the buffer</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">_</b> </td> +<td>undo the last change (can be repeated); note that you actually have to type <b +class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">Control</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">hyphen</b> for +this.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">k</b> </td> +<td>delete to end of line</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">s</b> </td> +<td>forward search</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">r</b> </td> +<td>backward search</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +</div> + +<p>Note that many <b class="KEYCAP">Meta</b> commands are parallel to the <b +class="KEYCAP">Control</b> commands except that they operate on larger units: while <b +class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">f</b> goes forward one character, <b +class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">f</b> goes forward an entire word, etc.</p> + +<p>Also note that <b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP"><</b> and <b +class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">></b> require you to type <b +class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">Alt</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">comma</b> and <b +class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">Alt</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">dot</b> +respectively, since <b class="KEYCAP"><</b> and <b class="KEYCAP">></b> are on <b +class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">comma</b> and <b class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b +class="KEYCAP">dot</b>. (Unless of course you have a different keyboard layout from the +standard US layout.)</p> + +<p>Note that <b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">k</b> deletes (kills, as it is +commonly called) all the text after the cursor to the end of the line, but doesn't delete +the line itself (i.e., it doesn't delete the final newline). It only deletes the line if +there was no text after the cursor. In other words, in order to delete a complete line, +you have to put the cursor at the beginning of the line, and then hit <b +class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">k</b> twice: once to delete the text on the line, +once to delete the line itself.</p> +</div> + +<div class="NAVFOOTER"> +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +<table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="emacs-modes.html" +accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html" +accesskey="H">Home</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="emacs-saving-files.html" +accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Modes</td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="emacs.html" +accesskey="U">Up</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Saving Files</td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> +</body> +</html> + |