Useful EMACS shortcuts

February 20, 2015 | Posted in Editors | Ajoy Oommen

Some very useful shorcuts

C-x C-f # Open a file
C-x k   # Close buffer
C-x C-s # Save single file
C-x C-c # Exit

C-x b   # Cycle buffers

M-x untabify # Remove all tab characters in the selected region

Encoding

C-x RET f unix # Set encoding to unix

Selection and editting

C-spc direction   # Start selection
C-w   # Cut
M-w   # Copy
C-y   # Paste

M-x replace-string  # Replace all occurences of a string
M-x query-replace   # Replace matched strings one-by-one

C-q C-j # Insert a newline in the search or replace string

Rectangles

C-x r t   # Set text in the selected rectangle
C-x r d   # Delete text in the selected rectangle
C-x r k   # Cut the rectangular region
C-x r M-w # Copy the rectangular region
C-x r y   # Paste the rectangular region (yank)

Webmode shortcuts

C-c C-i    # Indent all code
C-c C-f    # Toggle folding

Keyboard Macro

Eg: Appending characters to the end of each line in Emacs

C-x ( C-e a C-n C-x )
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