Navigating Text buffers
For navigating a buffer while editing text use the following.
- Sentence
- Remember You need to put two spaces after the full-stop.
- Page
- In "*.el" files and other text files (for example [C-h n]), text is divided into "pages" delimited by `^L' character. This character can be entered with [C-q C-l]
Key bindings for navigating text
| Entity % Movement
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Begin (Backward)
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End (Forward)
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Mark
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Kill Or Cut
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| Character
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[ C-b]
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[ C-f]
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[ C-@]
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[ C-d]
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| Word
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[ M-b]
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[ M-f]
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[ M-@]
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[ M-d]
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| Line
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[ C-a]
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[ C-e]
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[ C-k]
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| Sentence
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[ M-a]
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[ M-e]
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[ M-k]
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| Paragraph
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M-{ }}
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[ M-} ]
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[ M-h ]
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[ M-h C-w]
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| Page
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[ C-x [ ]
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[ C-x ] ]
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[ C-x C-p]
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Navigating programming code
For navigating in code in any Programming language use the following.
- sexp
- These are balanced expressions. For example, in C a block enclosed in a pair of {,} and in Lisp a pair of (, ).
Key bindings for navigating code
| Entity % Movement
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Begin (Backward)
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End (Forward)
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Mark
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Kill Or Cut
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Up
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| sexp
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[ C-M-b]
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[ C-M-f]
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[ C-M-@]
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[ C-M-k]
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[ C-M-u]
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