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Doom Emacs Keyboard Shortcuts (DRAFT) by

Doom Emacs commands cheat sheet

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Key References

Emacs
Windows
Mac
M (meta)
Alt
Option
C (control)
Ctrl
Ctrl
s (special)
Windows key
Command
S
Shift
Shift

Meta

Quick menu
SPC
Command help
SPC ?
Open program
Space : app-name
External Command
: ! <ex­ternal comman­d> ENTER
Quit menu
SPC q
External commands like ls, pwd, rm

Help

Main menu
SPC
Help menu
SPC h
Installed docs
SPC h i
Describe key
SPC h k
Doom docs
SPC h d h
Search
K

Buffers

Menu
SPC shift
Buffer menu
SPC b
Show buffers
SPC b i
Show buffers with preview
SPC b B
Buffers can be files, direct­ories, terminals, etc.

Windows

Window menu
SPC w
Split vertical (right)
SPC w v
Split horizontal
SPC w s
Switch windows
SPC w w
Close current window, frame, quit Emacs if last frame
SPC w q
Windows are panes

File

 
Doom
Emacs
Home
  
~/
File menu
SPC f
Find file
SPC . (SPC f f)
C-x C-f
Save file or buffer
SPC f s
C-x C-s
Save file as
SPC f S
C-x C-w
Config files
SPC f p
Undo
u
C-x C-u
Save section to file
:#,# w FILENAME
Merge file
:r FILENAME
#,# are the line numbers.
  

Navigation

Quit
ESC
Back (left)
h
Forward (right)
l
Previous (up)
k
Next (down)
j
End of line
$
Line number
:100 ENTER
Beginning of buffer
gg
End of buffer
G
Fold heading
Tab
Fold all headings
Shift + Tab
Open link
SPC a SPC, SPC a b
Open link EWW
SPC a e

Copy and paste

Visual mode
v
Select to end of line
Shift - v
Select to end of word
e
Copy text (yank)
y
Paste text
p

Editing

 
Vim
Emacs
Insert mode
i
Normal mode
ESC, jkjkjk
C-g
Delete character
x
Delete word including space
dw
Delete to end of line
d$
Delete whole line
dd
Delete 2 lines
2dd
Put last deletion
p
Undo
u
Redo
Ctrl+r
Replace
r, then character to replace
Replace to end of line
R
Change Word
cw, then the rest of the word to replace
Change to end of line
c$
Insert (open) line below
o
insert (open) line above
O
Append after char
a
Append to end of line
A

Document Formatting

 
Org
Markdown
Heading
* Heading
# Heading
Subheading
** Subheading
## Subheading
Bold
bold
Bold
Italic
/italic/
_Itlaics_
Underlined
_under­lined_
Strike­through
+strik­eth­rough+
strike­through
Monospace
=monos­pace=
Unordered List
- list item
Sublist
- sublist item
Ordered List
1.
Todo
- [ ]
Done
- [X]
Code
   
code
Code Block
   
`
code block
`
Link
[[LINK­][D­ESC­RIP­TION]]

Document Search & Replace

Search forward
/ search term ENTER
Search backward
? search term ENTER
Next search result
n
Previous search result
N
Matching (, [, or {
% while over the first
Replace first occurrence on line
:s/old/new ENTER
Replace all occurr­ences on line
:s/old­/new/g
Replace occurr­ences on two lines
:#,#s/­old­/new/g (#,# are the numbers of the lines)
Replace occurr­ences globally
:%s/ol­d/new/g