Emacs Lisp Cheat Sheet

Special form

special form has its own rule for which arguments are evaluated

Special Form

Purpose	Forms
Definition	defconst defun defvar
Binding constructs	let let* function
Conditional evaluation	and cond if or
Sequential evaluation	prog1 prog2 progn
Iteration	while function
Syntactic extension	defmacro
Quoting	quote
Assignment	setq setq-default
Nonlocal Exits	catch condition-case unwind-protect
Save	save-current-buffer save-excursion save-restriction save-window-excursion
Other	interactive track-mouse with-output-to-temp-buffer

Standard Library

Buffer

buffer is a lisp object containing text to be edited

Buffer related function and Variable

Category	Functions Variable
Basic	bufferp current-buffer set-buffer save-current-buffer with-current-buffer with-temp-buffer
Buffer Names	buffer-name rename-buffer get-buffer generate-new-buffer-name
Buffer File Name	buffer-file-name buffer-file-name buffer-file-truename buffer-file-number get-file-buffer find-buffer-visting set-visted-file-name list-buffers-directory
Buffer Modification	buffer-modified-p set-buffer-modified-p restore-buffer-modified-p not-modified buffer-modified-tick buffer-chars-modified-tick
Buffer Modification Time	verify-visited-file-modtime clear-visited-file-modtime visited-file-modtime set-visited-file-modtime ask-user-about-supersession-threat
Read-Only Buffers	buffer-read-only inhibit-read-only toggle-read-only barf-if-buffer-read-only
Buffer List	buffer-list other-buffer last-buffer bury-buffer unbury-buffer
Creating Buffers	get-buffer-creat generate-new-buffer
Killing Buffers	kill-buffer kill-buffer-query-function kill-buffer-hook buffer-offer-save buffer-save-without-query buffer-live-p
Indirect Buffers	make-indirect-buffer clone-indirect-buffer buffer-base-buffer
Swapping Text Between Two Buffers	buffer-swap-text
Buffer Gap	gap-position gap-size