Basic (X)Emacs Commands
Note that the Meta key shown below is typically the Alt key on most modern terminal emulators.
Commands
Move backward one screenful
Clear screen and redisplay everything (re-centers the screen)
Move to the previous line
Move to the next line
Move backward one character
Move forward one character
Delete one character
Kill from the cursor position to end of line
To yank the lastly killed text back
Move to the begining of the line
Move to the end of the line
Kill to the end of the current sentence
Move forward one word
Move backward one word
Move to the begining of the sentence
Move to the end of the sentence
Move to the begining of the file
Move to the end of the file
Kill the next word after the cursor
Undoes one command’s worth of changes
Save the file
Write to the file
Retrieve/open a file
Move forward ‘n’ characters (n should be a number)
Save file and exit