Emacs - Movement

Table of Contents

Character-wise movement
Word-wise movement
Line-wise movement
Sexp-wise movement
List-wise movement
Sentence-wise movement
Paragraph-wise movement
Defun-wise movement
Page-wise movement

Character-wise movement

Key binding	Purpose
`C-f`	Move forward by a character
`C-b`	Move backward by a character
`C-p`	Move to previous line
`C-n`	Move to next line

Word-wise movement

Key binding	Purpose
`M-f`	Move forward by a word
`M-b`	Move backward by a word

Line-wise movement

Key binding	Purpose
`C-a`	Move point to the beginning of the line
`C-e`	Move point to the end of the line
`M-m`	Move point to the first non-whitespace character on this line

Sexp-wise movement

Key binding	Purpose
`C-M-f`	Move forward by a s-expression (sexp)
`C-M-b`	Move backward by a sexp

List-wise movement

Key binding	Purpose
`C-M-p`	Move backward to the previous list
`C-M-n`	Move forward to the next list
`C-M-u`	Move up out of a list
`C-M-d`	Move down into a list

Sentence-wise movement

Key binding	Purpose
`M-a`	Move to the beginning of a sentence
`M-e`	Move to the end of a sentence

Paragraph-wise movement

Key binding	Purpose
`M-{`	Move to the beginning of a paragraph
`M-}`	Move to the end of a paragraph

Defun-wise movement

Key binding	Purpose
`C-M-a`	Move to the beginning of a defun
`C-M-e`	Move to the end of a defun

Page-wise movement

Key binding	Purpose
`C-x [`	Move backward by a page
`C-x ]`	Move forward by a page
`C-v`	Scroll down a page
`M-v`	Scroll up a page
`C-M-v`	Scroll down the other window
`C-M-S-v`	Scroll up the other window
`M-<`	Move to the beginning of the buffer
`M->`	Move to the end of the buffer