Emacs Commands Cheat Sheet

beginning-of-line

end-of-line

forward-char

backward-char

forward-word

backward-word

delete-char

backward-delete-char

quoted-insert

tab-insert

Exchange the char before cursor with the character at cursor

Exchange the word before cursor with the word at cursor

Uppercase the current word

Lowercase the current word

Capitalize the current word

kill-line

backward-kill-line

Kill backward from point to the beginning of the line

Kill from point to the end of the current word

Kill the word behind point

Kill the word behind point, using white space as a word boundary

Delete all spaces and tabs around point

Yank the top of the kill ring into the buffer at point

Rotate the kill ring, and yank the new top

Begin saving the chars typed into the current keyboard macro

End saving the chars typed into the current keyboard macro

Re-execute the last keyboard macro defined

Attempt to perform completion on the text before point

List the possible completions of the text before point

Insert all completions of the text before point generated by possible-completions

accept-line

previous-history

next-history

beginning-of-history

end-of-history

Search backward starting at the current line (incremental)

Search forward starting at the current line (incremental)

Search backward using non-incremental search

Search forward using non-incremental search

Insert the n-th argument to the previous command at point

Insert the last argument to the previous command

Kill the text of the region-rectangle, saving its contents as the 'last killed rectangle'

Save the text of the region-rectangle as the 'last killed rectangle'

Delete the text of the region-rectangle

Yank the last killed rectangle with its upper left corner at point

Insert blank space to fill the space of the region-rectangle. This pushes the previous contents of the region-rectangle to the right

Insert line numbers along the left edge of the region-rectangle. This pushes the previous contents of the region-rectangle to the right

Clear the region-rectangle by replacing all of its contents with spaces

Delete whitespace in each of the lines on the specified rectangle, starting from the left edge column of the rectangle

Replace rectangle contents with string on each line

Insert string on each line of the rectangle

Toggle Rectangle Mark mode. When this mode is active, the region-rectangle is highlighted and can be shrunk/grown, and the standard kill and yank commands operate on it

re-read-init-file

Abort the current editing command and ring the terminals bell

If the metafield char x is lowercase run the command that is bound to uppercase char

Metafy the next character typed. For example, ESC-p is equivalent to Meta-p

Incremental undo, separately remembered for each line

Undo all changes made to this line

Perform tilde expansion on the current word

Set the mark to the point

Swap the point with the mark

Move to the next occurance of current character under cursor

Move to the previous occurrence of current character under cursor

Without argument line is commented, with argument uncommented (if it was commented)

When in vi mode, switch to emacs mode

When in emacs mode, switch to vi mode

Specify the digit to the argument