A Practical Guide to Red Hat® Linux® 8

Chapter Summary

You can precede many of the commands in the following tables with a numeric argument to make the command repeat the number of times specified by the argument. Precede a numeric argument with CONTROL-U to keep emacs from entering the argument as text.

Moving the Cursor

CONTROL-F	Forward by characters
CONTROL-B	Backward by characters
META-f	Forward by words
META-b	Backward by words
META-e	To end of sentence
META-a	To beginning of sentence
META-{	To end of paragraph
META-}	To beginning of paragraph
META->	Forward to end of buffer
META-<	Backward to beginning of buffer
CONTROL-ESCAPE	To end of line
CONTROL-A	To beginning of line
CONTROL-N	Down by lines
CONTROL-P	Up by lines
CONTROL-V	Forward (scroll) by windows
META-v	Backward (scroll) ...