editor.cheat.sheet

Emacs cheet sheet

Find (or Create) file: C-x C-f
C-h k [home] should show you what 'Home' is bound to

C - Ctrl, M - Alt
 1 Exit Emacs: C-x C-c
 2 Save file: C-x C-s
 3 UNDO: C-x u
 4 Move to start of file: C-Home (If not work use other terminal)
 5 Move to end of file: C-End
 6 Incremental search forward: C-s (inside search bufer C-s jump next match, outside search buffer C-s C-s make search next)
 7 Incremental search backward: C-r
 8 Go to line number: M-g g (I add C-l binding)
 9 Auto complete from current buffer: M-/
10 Remove from current position to end of line: C-k
11 Start vertical mark: C-x SPC
12 To perform an unconditional search and replace, press M-x. Then enter: replace-string RET your_search_string RET your_replace_string
13 Enable/disable past (noindent) mode: M-x electric-indent-mode
14. Regex search: C-M-s (M-x isearch-forward-regexp) and C-M-r (isearch-backward-regexp)
15. Regex replace: M-x replace-regexp
capturing: \(\)
16. C-M-f  Move forward over a balanced expression
    C-M-b  Move backward over a balanced expression
17. Show line numbers M-x linum-mode
18. M-x describe-char
19. Move to function definition
  19.1. in project dir: find . -name "*.py" -print | etags -
  19.2. in project dir: cat .dir-locals.el 
((nil . ((tags-file-name . "~/project_dir/TAGS"))))
  19.3. Move to function definition: M-. and M-, for return
10. Close window C-x 1
11. Nonbreakable space type `‘C-x 8 SPC’