| Control-x
Control-s | Save
currently edited file. |
| Control-x
s | Save all
unsaved files. |
| Control-x
Control-c | Quit
emacs. |
| Control-x
Control-w | Save the
current file as a different file name. Note that you will be
prompted for the file name |
.
| Control-x
k | Kill the
current file (asks to confirm if the current file hasn’t
been saved). |
| Insert | Electric buffers menu (Note: Buffer ≈
File). (Once you get used to it, you will wonder how you ever got
by without it!) The F12 key also
does the same thing. One common usage of the Electric Buffers
Menu is to toggle between the current and the next-to-current file
using the key sequence Insert
Insert. Note that the Buffers Menu at the top
of the screen does a similar thing. |
| Control-s | Incremental Search forward. |
| Control-r | Incremental Reverse search. |
| Alt-% actually Alt-Shift-5 | Search and Replace. |
| Alt-* actually Alt-Shift-8 | Regexp search and replace. |
| Alt-/ | Automatically complete abbreviation. (Once you get used
to it, you will wonder how you ever got by without it!) |
| Esc Esc
Esc or Control-q | Abort current command and widen narrowed
buffer. |
| F1 | Online
help. |
| Shift
F1 | Copy the contents of
the current buffer to the clipboard. |
| F2 | Save
all buffers that you are currently editing (no questions
asked). |
| F3 | Save
and delete non-essential buffers (no questions asked). This is
useful when you are editing a whole bunch of files and you wish to
purge them all to disk. |
| F4 | Widen
(the opposite of Control-2 and
Control-3). |
| F5
or Control-Alt-\ | Automatically indents the whole buffer (see
tutorial 2). |
)
| F6 | Opens
a file using the Windows open file dialog box. This is the same
as the key sequence Control-o. |
| F7 | Toggles the current file’s read-only status.
Note that files in the output folder are set to be
read-only by default. This device is intended to protect the user
from editing files that they shouldn’t be editing. If you
really want to edit a file that you shouldn’t simply press
this key and it opens up the possibility of editing that
file. |
| F8 | Undo /
Redo. |
| F9 | Compile using the last compile command. |
| Control-F9 or Alt-F9 or Shift-F9 | Compile and edit the command line. |
| Shift
F11 | Auto complete file
name. (Once you get used to it, you will wonder how you ever got
by without it!) Note that F11 by
itself is bound under Lubuntu to toggle maximisation of the current
window. |
| F12 | Electric buffers menu. (Once you get used to it, you
will wonder how you ever got by without it!) The Insert key also does the same thing.
One common usage of the Electric Buffers Menu is to toggle between
the current and the next-to-current file using the key sequence
F12 F12. |
| Control-k | Kill line and append to last kill. |
| Control-y | Yank last kill. |
| Alt-y , immediately following Control-y | searches killed text. Each time you press this key it
goes back one step through the "kill ring". |
| Control-Backspace or Alt-Backspace | Backward delete word. (Once you get used to it, you
will wonder how you ever got by without it!) |
| Control-Delete or Alt-Delete | Forward delete word. (Once you get used to it, you will
wonder how you ever got by without it!) |
