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+<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="EMACS-BASIC-EDITING" name="EMACS-BASIC-EDITING">17.4 Basic
+Editing</a></h1>
+
+<p>When you have opened a file, you can of course move around in it with the cursor. The
+<b class="KEYCAP">cursor keys</b> and <b class="KEYCAP">PgUp</b>, <b
+class="KEYCAP">PgDn</b> do what you'd expect. <b class="KEYCAP">Home</b> and <b
+class="KEYCAP">End</b> jump to the beginning and end of the line. (In older versions,
+they would actually jump to the beginning and end of the buffer.) However, there are also
+<b class="KEYCAP">Control</b> and <b class="KEYCAP">Meta</b> (<b class="KEYCAP">Alt</b>)
+key combos that move the cursor around. Because you do not need to move your hands to
+another part of the keyboard for these, they are much quicker once you get used to them.
+The most important such commands are listed in <a
+href="emacs-basic-editing.html#TABLE-EMACS-BASIC-EDITING">Table 17-1</a>.</p>
+
+<div class="TABLE"><a id="TABLE-EMACS-BASIC-EDITING"
+name="TABLE-EMACS-BASIC-EDITING"></a>
+<p><b>Table 17-1. Basic Emacs Editing Commands</b></p>
+
+<table border="0" frame="void" width="100%" class="CALSTABLE">
+<col width="25%" />
+<col width="75%" />
+<thead>
+<tr>
+<th>Command</th>
+<th>Result</th>
+</tr>
+</thead>
+
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">b</b> </td>
+<td>go one character back</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">f</b> </td>
+<td>go one character forward</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">n</b> </td>
+<td>go one line down</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">p</b> </td>
+<td>go one line up</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">a</b> </td>
+<td>go to the beginning of the line</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">e</b> </td>
+<td>go to the end of the line</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">b</b> </td>
+<td>go one word back</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">f</b> </td>
+<td>go one word forward</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">}</b> </td>
+<td>go one paragraph forward</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">{</b> </td>
+<td>go one paragraph backward</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">a</b> </td>
+<td>go one sentence backward</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">e</b> </td>
+<td>go one sentence forward</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">d</b> </td>
+<td>delete the character under the cursor</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">d</b> </td>
+<td>delete until the end of the current word</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">v</b> </td>
+<td>go down one screen (i.e., PgDn)</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">v</b> </td>
+<td>go up one screen (i.e., PgUp)</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">&lt;</b> </td>
+<td>go to the beginning of the buffer</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">&gt;</b> </td>
+<td>go to the end of the buffer</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">_</b> </td>
+<td>undo the last change (can be repeated); note that you actually have to type <b
+class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">Control</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">hyphen</b> for
+this.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">k</b> </td>
+<td>delete to end of line</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">s</b> </td>
+<td>forward search</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">r</b> </td>
+<td>backward search</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<p>Note that many <b class="KEYCAP">Meta</b> commands are parallel to the <b
+class="KEYCAP">Control</b> commands except that they operate on larger units: while <b
+class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">f</b> goes forward one character, <b
+class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">f</b> goes forward an entire word, etc.</p>
+
+<p>Also note that <b class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">&lt;</b> and <b
+class="KEYCAP">M</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">&gt;</b> require you to type <b
+class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">Alt</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">comma</b> and <b
+class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">Alt</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">dot</b>
+respectively, since <b class="KEYCAP">&lt;</b> and <b class="KEYCAP">&gt;</b> are on <b
+class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b class="KEYCAP">comma</b> and <b class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b
+class="KEYCAP">dot</b>. (Unless of course you have a different keyboard layout from the
+standard US layout.)</p>
+
+<p>Note that <b class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">k</b> deletes (kills, as it is
+commonly called) all the text after the cursor to the end of the line, but doesn't delete
+the line itself (i.e., it doesn't delete the final newline). It only deletes the line if
+there was no text after the cursor. In other words, in order to delete a complete line,
+you have to put the cursor at the beginning of the line, and then hit <b
+class="KEYCAP">C</b>-<b class="KEYCAP">k</b> twice: once to delete the text on the line,
+once to delete the line itself.</p>
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