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-====== Emacs Cheatsheet ====== 
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-===== Basic Movement and Editing Commands ===== 
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-| C-x C-f | Find file and load into buffer (Emacs prompts for filename) | 
-| C-x C-s | Save the current buffer | 
-| C-x C-w | Save the current buffer under a different name (Emacs prompts for the new name) | 
-| C-x C-c | Quit Emacs, prompting if you have not saved any buffers | 
-| Arrow keys or C-f, C-b, C-n, C-p | Right (forward), left (back), down (next), up (previous), respectively | 
-| C-k | Delete from cursor to end of line | 
-| C-a | Go to start of line | 
-| C-e | Go to end of line | 
-| C-v | Go down a page | 
-| M-v | Go up a page | 
-| M-f | Go to next word | 
-| M-b | Go back one word | 
-| M-a | Go to previous sentence | 
-| M-b | Go to next sentence | 
-| C-/ | Undo | 
-| C-_ | Undo (alias for C-/) | 
-| C-x u | Undo (alias for C-/) | 
-| C-g | Abort the current command | 
-| C-l | Redraw and center screen at cursor | 
-| M-< | Go to start of buffer | 
-| M-<nowiki>></nowiki> | Go to end of buffer | 
-| C-d | Delete next character | 
-| M-d | Delete next word | 
-| M-<nowiki>|</nowiki> | Execute shell command on region | 
-| Backspace | Delete previous character | 
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-===== Kill & Yank (Cut/Copy and Paste) ===== 
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-| C-space | Set the mark | 
-| C-w | Cut (kill) | 
-| M-w | Copy (kill) | 
-| C-y | Paste (yank) | 
-| M-y | Paste (yank) next saved selection | 
-| C-x h | Set point to start of buffer and mark to end of buffer (select the entire buffer) | 
-| C-x C-x | Swap point and mark | 
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-===== Search & Replace ===== 
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-| C-s | Incremental search forward | 
-| C-r | Incremental search backward | 
-| C-M-s | Regexp search forward | 
-| C-M-r | Regexp search backward | 
-| M-% | Search and replace | 
-| M-x query-replace-regexp | Search and replace with regexps | 
-| C-g | Abort a search | 
-| C-w | During a search, highlight the word around the cursor | 
-| Up, down arrow keys or M-p, M-n | Access search string history | 
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-===== Emacs Modes ===== 
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-| M-x modename | Toggle the given major or minor mode | 
-| C-h m | Display help on the current major mode, including any special key bindings in effect | 
-| M-q | Used in text-mode to reformat a paragraph of text manually | 
-| M-x global-font-lock-mode | Toggle syntax highlighting | 
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-===== Buffers ===== 
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-| C-x b | Switch to another buffer | 
-| C-x C-b | Display buffer list | 
-| C-x k | Kill current buffer (Emacs prompts for confirmation) | 
-| M-x iswitchb-mode | Enable iswitch mode, for smart buffer name completion with C-x b | 
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-===== Windows ===== 
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-| C-x 0 | Close this window | 
-| C-x 1 | Close all other visible windows | 
-| C-x 2 | Split horizontally | 
-| C-x 3 | Split vertically | 
-| C-x o | Switch to other window | 
-| C-M-v | Scroll other window | 
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-===== Dired Mode ===== 
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-| M-x dired | Load dired mode (Emacs prompts for directory name) | 
-| C-x C-f | Dired mode loaded when a directory is specified as load file | 
-| Left, right arrow keys or p, n | Previous and next file, respectively | 
-| Enter | Visit this file in this window | 
-| o | Visit this file in a new window | 
-| g | Refresh directory view | 
-| m | Mark file | 
-| u | Un-mark file | 
-| d | Mark a file for later deletion | 
-| x | Delete all files marked for deletion (Emacs prompts for confirmation) | 
-| D | Delete this file right now (Emacs prompts for confirmation) | 
-| C | Copy this file, or copy currently marked files (Emacs prompts for destination) | 
-| R | Rename/move this file, or rename/move currently marked files (Emacs prompts for destination) | 
-| M | Chmod this file, or chmod currently marked files (Emacs prompts for new permissions) | 
-| O | Chown this file, or chown currently marked files (Emacs prompts for new owner) | 
-| G | Chgrp this file, or chgrp currently marked files (Emacs prompts for new group) | 
-| + | Create directory (Emacs prompts for directory name) | 
-| ! | Execute shell command on this file, or currently marked files (Emacs prompts for command) | 
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-===== Shell Modes ===== 
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-| M-x shell | Shell mode, use M-p and M-n for command history | 
-| M-x eshell | Cross-platform Emacs Lisp shell emulator, use arrow keys for command history | 
-| M-x ansi-term | Full terminal emulator, suitable for full-screen applications. | 
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-===== Getting Help ===== 
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-| C-h t | Emacs tutorial | 
-| C-h a | Apropos (Emacs prompts for keyword or regexp) | 
-| C-h i | Load info browser | 
-| C-h m | Display help on current mode | 
-| C-h f | Display help on function (Emacs prompts for function) | 
-| C-h k | Display help on key (Emacs prompts for key) | 
-| M-x man | Display a man page in a new buffer (Emacs prompts for man page) | 
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-===== w3m mode ===== 
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-| M-x w3m | Start browsing web with emacs-w3m. | 
-| q | Close all emacs-w3m windows, without deleting buffers. | 
-| Q | Exit browsing web. All emacs-w3m buffers will be deleted. | 
-| RET | Display the page pointed to by the link under point. | 
-| C-c C-c | Submit the form at point. | 
-| R | Reload the current page. | 
-| r | Redisplay the current page. | 
-| TAB | Move the point to the next anchor. | 
-| M-TAB | Move the point to the previous anchor. | 
-| B | Move back to the previous page in the history. | 
-| N | Move forward to the next page in the history. | 
-| U | Visit the web page. | 
-| H | Go to the Home page. | 
-| M-d | Download the URL. | 
-| d | Download the URL under point. | 
-| \ | Display the html source of the current page. | 
-| SPC | Scroll up the current window, or go to the next page. | 
-| b | Scroll down the current window, or go to the previous page. | 
-| > | Scroll to the left. | 
-| < | Scroll to the right. | 
-| . | Shift to the left. | 
-| , | Shift to the right. | 
-| M-l | Recenter horizontally. | 
-| j | Next line. | 
-| k | Previous line. | 
-| l | Forward char. | 
-| h | Backward char. | 
-| s | Display the history of pages you have visited in the session. | 
-| S | Prompt for a search query and submit it to google. | 
-| v | Display the bookmarks list. | 
-| a | Add a url of the current page to a new bookmark. | 
-| M-a | Add the url under point to a new bookmark. | 
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-===== Sample .emacs ===== 
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-<file config .emacs> 
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-  ;; Sample ~/.emacs file 
-  ;; 
-  ;; Un-comment what you want to enable and re-start Emacs 
-  ;; 
-  ;;Load iswitch mode 
-  ;;(require 'iswitchb) 
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-  ;;Make text mode the default for new buffers 
-  ;;(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode) 
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-  ;;Turn on refill-mode whenever text mode is entered 
-  ;;(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 
-  ;;  '(lambda () (refill-mode 1))) 
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-  ;;Enable syntax highlighting when it's allowed 
-  ;;(when (fboundp 'global-font-lock-mode) 
-  ;;  (global-font-lock-mode t)) 
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-  ;;Fix the backspace key 
-  ;;(normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1) 
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-  ;;Use cperl-mode for editing Perl code, it is better than perl-mode 
-  ;;(defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) 
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-  ;;Don't blink my cursor, please 
-  ;;(blink-cursor-mode nil) 
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-  ;;Display the current time in the modeline 
-  ;;(display-time-mode t) 
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-  ;;Start the emacs server 
-  ;; 
-  ;;When this is running, programs calling emacsclient open a buffer 
-  ;;in the already running emacs. Useful in mutt or pine for composing 
-  ;;mail in Emacs. Type C-x # to exit client buffer and send the text 
-  ;;back to the application that called it. 
-  ;;(server-start) 
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-</file> 
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