Emacs Cheat Sheet - kanuku/misc GitHub Wiki

Ctrl    : Control  
M       : Esc
Ctrl+G  : Cancel command
F10     : Access Menu Bar

Ctrl+x | Ctrl+f : Opens a file, if it cannot find the file, 
                  create the file.  
Ctrl+x | Ctrl+s : Saves the file without a prompt  
Ctrl+x | s      : Save all files with a prompt  

C+x | C+c          : Quits Emacs  
M-x | recover-file : recovers the auto-saved file. ( M = Escape key)  

C+k     : Kill/deletes the whole line, puts it into the clipboard.  
C+y     : Pastes whatever is in the clipboard at the cursor.  
C+space : starts marking/highlighting a region.  
M+w     : Copies this region into the clipboard.  
C+w     : Cuts this region into the clipboard (deletes the region  
          and copies it to clipboard)  
 
# Saving a region involves hitting C-space to start selecting, and then  
# hitting M-w or C-w to copy or cut it into the clipboard, and then  
# hitting C-y to paste it. If you dont like the region you are selecting,  
# hit C-g.  
C+g     : Always quits your command.  

C+a     : Beginning of the line  
C+e     : End of line  
M+>     : End of line/buffer  
M+<     : Beginning of line/buffer.  
 
C+/     : Undo, revert changes
C+g C+/ : Redo  

C-x b   : Switches buffers, asks you which buffer to switch to  
C-x C-b : Switches buffers, but show you list of buffers in a new window  

# Hit C-x o (other window) to go to other window and hit <enter> on the 
# buffer you want to switch to.  

C-x 0   : Will close that window  
C-x 1   : Will leave olny one window  
C-x 2   : Will make a horizontal cut and show a secondary window  
C-x 3   : Will make a vertical cut and show a secundary window  

C-s       : searches forward as you type. Beware \n is not newline, it is C-j.  
# When you are within a search, C-s will find the next occurrance. You can 
# always hit C-g to quit the search and return where you were.
 
M-C-s     : search a regexp  
# Again, hitting C-s while you are in regexp search will find the next 
# occurance. C-g will quit and go back to where your cursors was.
 
M-%       : searches and replaces.  
 
M-s o     : searches and show all the occurrence in an *Occur* buffer. 
            You can click on the lines to jump to those lines.  
 
M-x grep  : greps a pattern in the files you specify and shows the result in 
            a *Grep* buffer. It is similar to 'occur' as you can click/enter 
            on the lines to go to that file.  
M-x rgrep : will recursively grep in a directory (all the files and 
           subdirectories)  

# Emacs understands elisp. It is a dialect of lisp.
M-x command-name : Will execute the command.
M-x pwd   : Prints the working directory

  int a = 3;
      int b= 5; 

# This is the location on a mac
~/.emacs.d/init.el
# The path on other systems might be:
~/.emacs

C-h k    : To find help for a key combination
C-h f    : To find help for a function