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

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