https://lloydroc.github.io/categories/emacs/Recent content in Emacs on Lloyd Rochester's Geek BlogHugoenCopyright © 2025, Lloyd Rochester.Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://lloydroc.github.io/post/emacs/movement/Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://lloydroc.github.io/post/emacs/movement/<h1 id="hahahugoshortcode50s0hbhb">Movement in Emacs</h1> <p>A little cheat sheet for movement in <code>emacs</code>. Tried to capture all the ways you can move up, down, left and right in a buffer.</p> <h1 id="moving-by-character-and-line">Moving by Character and Line</h1> <p>Think <em>next</em> and <em>previous</em> for lines, and <em>backward</em> and <em>forward</em> for characters.</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code> Previous Line C-p ^ | Previous Character C-b &lt;---+---&gt; Next Character C-f | v Next Line C-n </code></pre><h1 id="moving-by-word-and-sentence">Moving by Word and Sentence</h1> <pre tabindex="0"><code> Backward Sentence M-a ^ | Backward Word M-b &lt;---+---&gt; Forward Word M-f | v Forward Sentence M-e </code></pre><h1 id="moving-to-beginning-of-line-and-buffer">Moving to Beginning of Line and Buffer</h1> <pre tabindex="0"><code> Buffer Start M-&lt; ^ | Line Beginning C-a &lt;---+---&gt; Line End C-e | v Buffer End M-&gt; </code></pre><h1 id="moving-to-first-non-whitespace-character">Moving to first non-whitespace Character</h1> <p>The <code>M-m</code> will run <code>back-to-indentation</code>.</p>