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All the other Emacs cheat sheets are too exhaustive and cumbersome. This is for people who just need to get in, make a few edits, and get out. This is not intended to be a guide for the power user or developers.
emacs OSX basics
Emacs Key |
Name |
OSX |
M |
Meta |
Alt - ⌥ |
C |
Control |
Ctrl |
s |
Special |
Command - ⌘ |
S |
Shift |
Shift |
Quick reference on reading emacs keys.
eg: C-M-x = Ctrl + ⌥ + x in OSX. C-s s = Ctrl + s, s
File Commands
C-x C-f |
Open file |
C-x C-s |
Save file |
C-x C-b |
Show buffer list |
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Cursor Commands
C-s |
Search forward |
C-r |
Search backward |
C-v |
Scroll down |
M-v |
Scroll up |
Copy/Paste Commands
C-w |
Cut |
M-w |
Copy |
C-y |
Yank (Paste) |
C-k |
Delete from cursor to line ending |
M-k |
Delete sentence |
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Additional Essentials
ESC ESC ESC |
Back out of any command |
C-g |
Stop current command (immediately) |
C-x C-c |
Close Emacs |
C-z |
Put Emacs in background mode |
fg |
(from command line) return Emacs to foreground mode |
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