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+====== Emacs Cheatsheet ======
+===== Basic Movement and Editing Commands =====
+| 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 |
+===== Kill & Yank (Cut/Copy and Paste) =====
+| 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 |
+===== Search & Replace =====
+| 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 |
+===== Emacs Modes =====
+| 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 |
+===== Buffers =====
+| 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 |
+===== Windows =====
+| 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 |
+===== Dired Mode =====
+| 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) |
+===== Shell Modes =====
+| 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. |
+===== Getting Help =====
+| 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) |
+===== w3m mode =====
+| 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. |
+===== Sample .emacs =====
+<file config .emacs>
+  ;; Sample ~/.emacs file
+  ;;
+  ;; Un-comment what you want to enable and re-start Emacs
+  ;;
+  ;;Load iswitch mode
+  ;;(require 'iswitchb)
+  ;;Make text mode the default for new buffers
+  ;;(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)
+  ;;Turn on refill-mode whenever text mode is entered
+  ;;(add-hook 'text-mode-hook
+  ;;  '(lambda () (refill-mode 1)))
+  ;;Enable syntax highlighting when it's allowed
+  ;;(when (fboundp 'global-font-lock-mode)
+  ;;  (global-font-lock-mode t))
+  ;;Fix the backspace key
+  ;;(normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1)
+  ;;Use cperl-mode for editing Perl code, it is better than perl-mode
+  ;;(defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode)
+  ;;Don't blink my cursor, please
+  ;;(blink-cursor-mode nil)
+  ;;Display the current time in the modeline
+  ;;(display-time-mode t)
+  ;;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)
+</file>
+----
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