• ‘C-‘ means use the CTRL key.

  • ‘M-‘ means use the Meta (or Alt) key.

  • C-x C-c: Exit Emacs session
  • C-x k: Kill buffer

  • C-x u: Undo changes

  • C-x C-f: Find file

  • C-x b: Switch buffer
  • C-x 0: Delete window
  • C-x 1: Delete other windows
  • C-x 2: Split the current window horizontally
  • C-x 3: Split the current window vertically

  • C-x 4 0: Kill buffer and window (basically it combines C-x k and C-x 0)

  • M-x RET: Execute command

  • linum-mode
  • global-linum-mode
  • display-line-numbers-mode

  • global-display-line-numbers-mode

  • C-g: Quit a partially entered command

  • C-v: View next screen (Scroll down)
  • M-v: View previous screen (Scroll up)
  • C-l: Center whole diagram in the screen
  • C-f: Move forward a character
  • C-b: Move backward a character
  • C-n: Move to next line
  • C-p: Move to previous line
  • M-f: Move forward a word
  • M-b: Move backward a word
  • C-a: Move to beginning of line
  • C-e: Move to end of line
  • M-a: Move to beginning of sentence
  • C-e: Move to end of sentence
  • M-<: Move to beginning of whole text

  • M->: Move to end of whole text

  • C-h: Get help
  • C-h r: Emacs manual
  • C-h t: Emacs tutorial
  • C-h i: Browse tutorial
  • C-h RET: Emacs tutorial
  • C-h C-c: See the conditions
  • C-h C-o: Information on getting the latest version

  • C-h C-w: Full details

  • C-h v: Browse variables

  • user-init-file

  • user-emacs-directory

  • M-`: Active menubar
  • M-x: To recover the files you were editing if an Emacs session crashed recently
  • M-!: Execute shell commands