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- Cursor Movement and Location
- This reference guide lists the commands available within GNU Emacs for moving the cursor, and reporting its location.
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- arrow keys (if available) N/A Move cursor.
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- C-a beginning-of-line Move to beginning of line.
- C-e end-of-line Move to end of line.
- C-f forward-char Move forward one character.
- C-b backward-char Move backward one character.
- M-f forward-word Move forward one word.
- M-b backward-word Move backward one word.
- C-n next-line Move down a line (creating the next line, if necessary).
- C-p previous-line Move up a line.
- M-r move-to-window-line Move to left margin, vertically centered in window.
- M-< beginning-of-buffer Move to top of buffer.
- M-> end-of-buffer Move to end of buffer.
- M-x goto-char goto-char Read a number and go to that buffer position (start = 1).
- M-x goto-line goto-line Read a number and go to that line (first line = 1).
- C-x C-n set-goal-column Set current column as 'goal column'. From then on, the C-n and C-p commands jump to that column,
- or the nearest possible column.
- C-u C-x C-n N/A Cancel the 'goal column', and return to normal behaviour.
- M-x what-page what-page Display page number and line number (within page) of cursor location.
- M-x what-line what-line Display line number (within buffer) of cursor location.
- M-x line-number-mode line-number-mode Display line number automatically (toggle).
- M-= count-lines-region Print number of lines in current region.
- C-x = what-cursor-postition Print character code, character position and column of the cursor location.
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