Emacs notes

 C-<chr>  # hold the Ctrl key while typing the character <chr>

M-<chr>  # hold the Alt key while typing the character <chr>

S-<chr>  # hold the Shift key while typing the character <chr>

C-w # cut

M-w #copy

C-y #paste

Dired # the file manager mode

C-x C-c, #end the Emacs session

C-g, #quit a partially entered command

Move around

C-p # previous line

C-n # next line

C-b # backward a character

C-f # forward a character

C-a #  beginning of line

C-e # move to end of line

M-a # move back to beginning of sentence

M-e # move forward to end of sentence

C-v, #view next screen

M-> # the end of the whole text

C-x 1 # one window, kill all other windows

C-g # cancel the command

C-a	Beginning of line
M-f	Forward one word
M-a	Previous sentence
M-v	Previous screen
M-<	Beginning of buffer

C-u #repeat

C-u 3 C-p

#Back 3 lines

C-u followed by a number and a movement command repeats that command the specified number of times

If you use C-u without specifying a digit, the default is 4

Open tutorial

Inserting and deleting

Electric: press a key does more than simply inserting the relevant character

M-d # kill the word after the cursor

C-k # kill from the cursor position to end of line

M-k # kill to the end of the current sentence

Killing =/=deleting

C-/ # undo the changes made by one command

Buffer # a place in a computer's memory for storing information temporarily

C-x C-f # find file

C-x c-s # save file

C-x s # save some buffers

C-x C-b # list buffers

C-x b # switch buffer

C-x C-c # quit Emacs

C-x u # undo

C-z # exit Emacs temporarily so that you can come back afterward

fg# resume Emacs

%emacs # resume Emacs

Searching

C-s # forward search

C-r # reverse search

Multiple windows

Windows=frames

C-x o # move the cursor to the other window

Yanking=pasting text

C-y	Yanks last killed text
M-y	Replace yanked text with previously killed text

From <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/>

Tips for beginners

Emacs for Windows users

From <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/>

M- up arrow # move line up

M-RightArrow # Indent Bullet Point

M-Enter # Create new bullet Point (*)
M-UpArrow # Move Bullet Point Up

S-RightArrow # Mark Bullet Point as TODO
C-c # add Tag to Bullet Point

C-x: Character eXtend.  Followed by one character.

M-x:        Named command eXtend.  Followed by a long na

Cutting=killing

Pasting=yanking

select a region of text

region: The text between point and the mark.

To specify the text for such a command to operate on, you set the mark at one end of it, and move point to the other end.

The buffer is the basic editing unit; one buffer corresponds to one text being

edited.

From <https://kb.iu.edu/d/aiuf>